Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Gloria Huang
The post below was written by American Red Cross volunteer Winnie Romeril. [...] Yesterday I met Uri Shacham, an Israeli paramedic from the Magen David Adom (MDA, Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross) working in the Red Cross-administered University Hospital in Port au Prince.
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Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Robin Parker
What do actor Masi Oka and the Red Cross have in common? Heroes!
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Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Wendy Harman
Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Wendy Harman
Twitter-sized news from Red Cross chapters around the country today
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Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Wendy Harman
We’d like to wish Sesame Street a very happy 40th birthday today and thank the Sesame Street characters and community for doing such great work on flu prevention this year.
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Posted on November 10th, 2009 by Mat Morgan
Want to sound much more cool and collected if your house catches on fire? Learn some Red Cross preparedness tips. Also, on this episode, Red Cross volunteer Bob Wade discusses some of the fires that he has responded to.
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Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Wendy Harman
Congratulations to Celebrity Cabinet Member Robinson Cano and his fellow Yankees on their 2009 World Series Championship.
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Posted on October 14th, 2009 by Abi Weaver
If you’re a loyal reader of the Red Cross blog, you saw our President & CEO Gail McGovern’s post earlier this week, which mentioned our flagship global health partnership – the Measles Initiative. Her timing couldn’t have been any better.
After a year’s worth of work, we re-launched the initiative’s Web site today to better showcase [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2009 by Wendy Harman
This post originally appeared in Red Cross volunteer Danelle P.’s personal blog.
This is country music sensation Eric Lee Beddingfield. Eric is a Georgia boy who lives in Nashville now. When he heard about the floods that ripped through his home state he wanted to help. He and his band drove up overnight in their [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Wendy Harman
This post originally appeared in Red Cross volunteer Danelle P.’s personal blog.
We have had some great local partners helping us out with this disaster. Today I went to the mobile kitchen that cooks all of the food we distribute. It is set up in a local church’s parking lot. We have an awesome partnership [...]
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