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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What do actor Masi Oka and the Red Cross have in common? Heroes!
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The 10 blog posts you all visited the most this year.
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Twitter-sized news from Red Cross chapters around the country today
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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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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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Congratulations to Celebrity Cabinet Member Robinson Cano and his fellow Yankees on their 2009 World Series Championship.
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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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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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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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