This post was written by Kate Meier, Red Cross worker in North Carolina. It is cross-posted from the Red Cross Carolina Piedmont Region blog. Pat Farmer and Red Cross CEO Angela Broome get ready to run “When I was running up at the North Pole,” Pat Farmer began, “there was a moment when I thought [...]
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Justin documents his first blood donor experience, A strange mosquito, and champions of character
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Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… CHINA: The Red Cross Society of China has deployed an emergency water unit to [...]
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At the Red Cross, we are placing greater emphasis on trying to prevent and minimize the impact of these disasters by making earlier and better informed decisions ahead of time. Climate information is often one of our best tools to accomplish this.
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How would you redesign our Emergency Response Vehicles?
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Run Pat Run, Pool safety, Fire safety WIN,
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Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… LIBYA: The ICRC continues to address urgent humanitarian needs, and – in a joint [...]
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NASA, Joplin, Arizona wildfire, and Trace Adkins.
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This post is cross-posted from the UPS Blog. As a long-time partner of the American Red Cross and a member of the Annual Disaster Giving Program, UPS provides both financial support of our disaster response mission, and shipping assistance to get relief supplies where they are needed, when they are needed. One of our partners [...]
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