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 …
Month: September 2011
Tweet of the Day
A faceless, nameless person saved my son’s life yesterday.
Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up
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 …
Hope In The Midst of Despair: Update #2
Mark Owens, an American Red Cross case worker in the Restoring Family Links program, is on a two-week visit to Kenya.
What We’re Reading
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: …
“Howdy!” From Your Newest Red Cross Blogger
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 …
ICRC Launches New Blog from the U.S.
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 – …
What We’re Reading
Every Atlantic Storm since 1950, mapping zombies, toilet paper to the rescue, and thoughts on Contagion
Hope In The Midst of Despair
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.
Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up
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 …