The FIFA World Cup took the world by storm, and the American Red Cross scored great stories, videos and resources to fuel your soccer appetite.
The Red Cross Grand Canyon Chapter has a distinction within the American Red Cross – they have had the most Restoring Family Links (RFL) cases of any chapter across the country for the past two years. To help serve their community in a unique way, the chapter’s international services department reached out to the Iraqi American Society for Peace and Friendship (IASPF).
The collaboration resulted in the Red Cross supporting a local soccer tournament hosted by IASPF, now in its second year. The tournament stretched over three weekends and had participants from refugee communities from: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Burundi, Congo, Iraq and Somalia.
The Red Cross was on-site providing snacks and water for the players, leading family disaster preparedness activities for spectators and distributing information about how the American Red Cross helps reconnect families separated by conflict and disaster.
See the album on Flickr.
In other soccer-related Red Cross news, a World Cup Pinterest board was created to highlight to the competing teams and their associated Red Cross or Red Crescent society.
And don’t miss a couple terrific videos from our Richmond chapter on YouTube: