Random Acts of Kindness

Our Southwestern Pennsylvania Chapter was the recipient of a random act of kindness last week – a secret agent delivered a complimentary box of donuts to their office!

Help Now: Billy Bob Thornton on Red Cross Disaster Relief

We’re always grateful for support from celebrities such as Billy Bob Thornton. Check out the PSA below, in which he recounts the flash flood in Arkansas a couple months ago that caused 20 fatalities.

Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up

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… PAKISTAN: The ICRC is providing training in first aid for journalists from Pakistan working in [...]

ONE Campaign

You can help Haiti by joining the ONE Campaign in calling on Congress to release funds for reconstruction. Sign the petition!

Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up

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… HAITI: Of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the earthquake, detainees are among [...]

Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up

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… [The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea [...]

Relics

Get trained to lifeguard this summer.

American Red Cross Offers Aid to Central America after Tropical Storm Agatha

A deluge of rain from tropical storm Agatha has flooded communities and caused hundreds of landslides in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. In response, Red Cross volunteers and experts are now assisting tens of thousands of people that have been displaced. Soon after the rain began, more than one thousand responders with the Red Cross [...]

Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up

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… [The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea [...]

Safety Tips We Have Learned From LOST

[Originally posted by Scott Waggoner on Oregon's Cross Blog.] LOST ended it’s epic run last night, and it has left us with many messages. Some are more obvious than others. Target helped point out one major lesson, and that is how to combat the smoke monster. By having a smoke alarm, of course! Here are [...]