Today is the last day of National Preparedness Month! To celebrate, we’d like to highlight some of the awesome people we’ve seen talking about getting prepared. We salute all of you. It’s not too late to make sure you know what to do when disaster strikes, or when someone around you needs help. Take our [...]
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This Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up is courtesy of Kate Swartz, MPH, from Cross Blog: Award-winning Red Cross news and views from Oregon and beyond 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 [...]
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Mark Owens, an American Red Cross case worker in the Restoring Family Links program, is on a two-week visit to Kenya.
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Looking After the Soldier, Back Home and Damaged [NYTimes]* One Who Cared [YouTube CapeCodcatfarm] What’s in our Go Bags? [The Onion]** Prepare-aphernalia: Video Game Armor [Oregon Trail chapter blog] Infographic: Disasters in the age of social media [Geary Interactive] Infographic: Predicting the next big earthquake [InfDPV] * Are you impacted by a military deployment? Our [...]
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Howdy! I can’t even begin to express how excited I am to be here today, introducing myself to you. My name is Erin Ferris, and I am a life-long Red Crosser. I took my very first American Red Cross Health & Safety course – Babysitter’s Training – when I was 11 years old. In the [...]
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Today, our friends at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launched the organization’s first English blog from Washington, DC. Recently, I spoke with the man behind Intercross – Simon Schorno, the ICRC’s Spokesperson for North America – to learn more about his plans for the site. What is Intercross? Intercross was the [...]
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Every Atlantic Storm since 1950, mapping zombies, toilet paper to the rescue, and thoughts on Contagion
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Mark Owens, an American Red Cross case worker in the Restoring Family Links program, is on a two-week visit to Kenya. He is working with Red Cross colleagues in the sprawling refugee camps of Dadaab, hoping to reconnect families separated amid the crisis in the Horn of Africa. This is his first story sent from the field.
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This Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up is courtesy of Scott Waggoner from Cross Blog: Award-winning Red Cross news and views from Oregon and beyond 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 [...]
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