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Thank you!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Red Cross ChatThanks to each of you for supporting the Red Cross with your votes during the Bullseye Gives campaign. Over two weeks you all voted for Red Cross more than 75,000 times, which means you earned $793,942. 
This donation will support all of our services. Did you know that every 24 hours:
- Red Cross volunteers help 200 families who lost everything in a house fire or other disaster
- The Red Cross connects deployed service members with their families 475 times
- 19,000 people outside the United States receive urgent care from the Red Cross following a disaster
- 21,000 people receive a blood transfusion from a Red Cross donor
- 43,000 people receive life-saving Red Cross health, safety and preparedness training
- 290,000 children receive a measles vaccination from the Red Cross and its partners
Your votes will help us make this incredible impact on the world every day. Thank you, and stay involved!
AllState donates $12,500 to the Red Cross
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
AllState recently donated $12,500 to the Greater Carolinas Chapter of the American Red Cross, helping to close a critical gap in disaster preparedness.
The money AllState donated:
- Will fund training for advanced training and supervisory volunteers;
- Provided $7,500 in assistance for residents affected by a recent 20-unit apartment fire; and
- Provide 150 flood clean-up kits.
Upon presenting the check to Board Chairman Mike Rash, AllState agent Jason Efland said, “We know that for disasters big and small, you guys are there.”Rash noted that the funds come at a time when the Red Cross needs it.
“We appreciate your generosity and want you to know that the money will help people right here in our communities,” Rash said.
Empowering People
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Around here we think that all Red Crossers are pretty special, but this guy is kind of a LEGEND:
For more than 20 years, Alberto Cairo has been on an ICRC team in Afghanistan working on relief programs to help people disabled by war. He has built hospitals, trained local medical professionals, and provided education to disabled Afghans. Alberto’s philosophy centers around the idea of empowering local Afghans to provide the services the community needs and he is well known locally for making a big impact.
A story in The New York Times recently said this about him:
Mr. Cairo’s passion for his patients is reciprocal, and nowhere is that more evident than out on the Kabul center’s open-air testing ground, a concrete platform where men, women and children, some standing for the first time in years, learn to walk again with artificial limbs. Tears flow readily, and much of the gratitude flows to “Mr. Alberto.”
To Alberto, each person is an individual with potential to thrive if the necessary resources are provided to the community.
Would you like to help empower people to perform extraordinary acts?
Get involved with the American Red Cross
Get involved with the ICRCVote for the Red Cross on Facebook!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
From Red Cross Chat
Today through May 25 you have a chance to raise real money for the American Red Cross.You won’t have to give up a single dime yourself.
Target has a $3 million pot of money they’ll be distributing to 10 charities (Red Cross among them). The more votes we get, the bigger the percentage of $3 million we receive.
You can vote one time every single day through May 25.
Your action items:
Go to http://www.facebook.com/target
Vote for Red Cross
Share the contest with all your friends and make sure they vote for the Red Cross
Remind everyone you know to do this once a day through May 25
Accept our thanks!Students’ posters raise Red Cross awareness
Friday, May 08, 2009
Written by students from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
In March, a class from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools held a poster contest to raise awareness about the Red Cross prior to a student collection fundraiser.The grand prize - a Red Cross book bag we stuffed full of treats, games, books and school supplies - was a great incentive and generated quite a response from our student body. The photos of the prize winners represent a small fraction of the entries we received. Our panel of three judges, our art teacher, media specialist and a classroom teacher had a difficult time choosing the best - there were so many creative, artistic entries!
Student Ariany said, “It made me feel good to make a poster so people will understand that others need to help. One person can only do so much, but a large group like the Red Cross can help a lot of people. I wish people were more generous.”
Dalton said, “I chose to make a poster not just for the prizes, but I also wanted to help people who have problems.”
Fernando said, “I felt happy to make the poster, and I did my best work on it, for people who need help.”
Sara said, “I entered the contest for two reasons: only 2 percent was for the prizes the other 98 percent was I really wanted to do something to help people.”Sara was our most productive entrant; she was the first to turn one in the day we announced our contest then she continued to turn in multiple entries (a total of 12)!
Pictured are some of the students with their posters.
Living in times of Influenza: A Perspective from Mexico
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
From Red Cross Chat
Photo: Georgina Pérez receives a medical check-up at a Mexican Red Cross Hospital to determine if she has the swine (H1N1) flu. Tests later showed she was not infected with the virus. Photo Credit: Jose Manuel Jiménez/IFRC
Gavin White is an American Red Cross delegate working from Mexico City and specializing in disaster management. His ongoing role involves supporting the Mexican Red Cross in capacity-building and coordination activities before, during and after natural disasters. Below is his personal account of the swine (H1N1) outbreak in Mexico.
It has become a ritual: every morning, the familiar newscast indicates the latest government figures of the Swine Influenza patients.
130 cases on Friday, April 24
1,000 persons infected by Sunday,
2,000 by MondayBy Wednesday, the number had fallen to 49 confirmed cases, as the Government recognized its nascent testing capacities were limited to a couple hundred tests a day.
By Thursday, the steady influx of statistics had started to flow in again, during the daily prime time news conferences.
We were all becoming flu experts: stay home as much as possible; wear masks in any public place; wash hands over and over; avoid hugging your closest friends, even if it means hurting feelings for life; make thermometers an everyday companion, alongside your comb and toothbrush.
By May 2nd, the Minister of Health announced that the peak of the epidemic had passed, that more samples kept on showing positive but that fewer patients came to hospitals.
However, this sanitized analysis was dimmed by a much more humane account of the epidemic from a good friend: his cousin in Toluca, a suburb of Mexico City, started coughing on Thursday. An informal visit to a doctor friend led to a preliminary prescription for cough syrup. Friday went by fine, but by the evening the dreaded symptoms showed up: headache, muscle aches, fever and more coughing. After spending hours in an overwhelmed hospital, he was eventually diagnosed with the A(H1N1) Influenza and received treatment.
Now comes the recovery… and the nerve-racking wait to see if he infected anyone in his family.
Are you a member of the Scrub Club?
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
From Red Cross Chat
The Scrub Club can help your kids (and you!) enjoy good hygiene. They have webisodes, games and songs to make avoiding the flu as fun as possible.
- Will fund training for advanced training and supervisory volunteers;