Your monthly gift helps ensure the Red Cross can rush relief and comfort to families in need — wherever and whenever disaster strikes.
Your monthly gift helps ensure the Red Cross can rush relief and comfort to families in need — wherever and whenever disaster strikes.
Share your heart with patients in need! Come to give blood by Feb. 28 and receive a $20 e-gift card to a merchant of your choice.*
Share your heart with patients in need! Come to give blood by Feb. 28 and receive a $20 e-gift card to a merchant of your choice.*
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By Janet Flanagan “Even war has rules.” That’s what Laura Calese tells her Red Cross class. Wait. What? Why is a Red Cross volunteer talking about the rules of war? Isn’t the Red Cross all about blood donations, CPR, fire safety, first aid and disaster response? The answer is “Yes.” And the Red Cross is also involved in another service, that of promoting International Humanitarian Law. It came about after 1859, when a Swiss businessman, Henry Dunant, witnessed horrific suffering...
Continue ReadingAs winter settles in, so do the challenges to collecting blood. The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage as requests from hospitals exceed the available supply of blood, drawing down the blood supply by about 35 percent over the past month. Individuals are urgently needed to give blood or platelets now so patients don’t face delays in lifesaving care. But there is good news: You can help change that. Now through February, the Red Cross is calling on compassionate individuals...
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