Lending a Hand - Where you need us - When you need us
The American Red Cross
Serving Humanity Since 1881
The Red Cross Movement and the Beginnings of the American
Red Cross
In October 1863, The International Red Cross and Red
Crescent Movement was created in Geneva, Switzerland, to provide nonpartisan
care to the wounded and sick in times of war. The red cross was adopted as
the Movement’s emblem at this first International Conference as a symbol of
neutrality and was to be used by national relief societies.
The American Red Cross Safe and Well Website is an internet-based
tool that families can integrate into their family's Disaster
Preparedness Plan. The Safe and Well site is a public website that
allows those affected by disaster to register themselves as “safe
and well” by selecting and posting standard messages for friends and
family that indicate they are at a shelter, home or hotel, and will
make contact when they are able. Concerned family members who know
the person's current phone number (home, cell or work) or a complete
home address can search for the messages posted by those who
register. To connect, click on the banner link above or here:
www.redcross.org/safeandwell
You
are cordially invited to
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For more information contact the Red
Cross, 502-223-1795.
The most effective way to protect
yourself and your home from fire is
to identify and remove fire hazards.
Sixty-five percent of home fire
deaths occur in homes with no
working smoke alarms. During a home
fire, working smoke alarms and a
fire escape plan that has been
practiced regularly can save lives.
We’re proud of our
history and appreciative of the volunteers, employees and
supporters who have given time, blood or contributions to enable the Red
Cross to
perform its life-saving mission.
Call 1-800-RED CROSS or go to redcross.org
You can help the victims of thousands of
disaster across the country each year, disasters like Hurricane Gustav, by
making a financial gift to the
American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which enables the Red Cross
to provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to victims of
disaster. The American Red
Cross honors donor intent. If you wish to designate your donation to
a specific disaster, please do so at the time of the donation. Call
1-800-RED-CROSS or
1-800-257-7575
(Spanish). Donations can also be mailed to the American Red Cross, 318
Washington Street , Frankfort , KY 40601 or to the American Red Cross, P.O.
Box 37243 , Washington , D.C. 20013 . Internet users can make secure online
credit card donations by visiting
www.redcross.org.
or products that are culturally
and environmentally right. In the past decade, accountability has become a
watchword of relief agencies around the world, with new guidelines to help
donors know that their aid won't be wasted. Give money, Presidents Bush and
Clinton implore, and by implication, leave the rest to professionals.
If you can't feed a hundred people, Mother Teresa used to say, then feed
just one. There are slow-motion disasters everywhere. The
Red Cross is doing heroic work in Haiti,
but it is also doing it around the corner, when a house burns down. It may
not feel glorious, but often the greatest good is accomplished quietly,
invisibly. The choice is not either-or. We can give globally and help
locally. Either way, the same principle holds in helping as in healing:
First, do no harm.
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