Your Global Impact

Each year, disasters around the world devastate the lives of millions of people. And millions more die from easily preventable diseases. With your support, the American Red Cross is taking action to save lives.
In 2011, your contributions and volunteer service:

• Provided urgent assistance to more than 5.3 million people affected by disaster in 24 countiries, from Japan to Tunisia.
• Continued to help 3.3 million people in Haiti rebuild their lives.
• Helped lead the Measles Initiative towards vaccinating 1 billion children in the last decade.
• Continued to invest in disaster preparedness, making communities less vulnerable in 33 countries.
• Worked to reconnect 5,378 families separated by international war and disaster.
• Educated 139,000 people in the United States about international humanitarian law.

To learn more about what you’ve helped accomplish this past year as well as new and additional ways to remain involved in 2012, read the Global Impact (report) and view our slide show below.