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Blood Donations
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Health Care
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General Public/Unspecified
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Blood is needed for emergencies and for people who have cancer, blood disorders, sickle cell, anemia and other illnesses. Some people need regular blood transfusions to live.
Imagine if giving blood was part of everyone's life. Something you did on a regular basis, like eating at your favorite restaurant. What kind of difference would that make? For nearly 5 million people who receive blood transfusions every year, your donation can make the difference between life and death.
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Through our vast network of hundreds of thousands of dedicated volunteers, more than 700 chapters and 36 blood regions in fiscal year 2007, your Red Cross was given the extraordinary privilege of serving the urgnet needs of your neighbors...some of whom were directly affected by more than 72,000 domestic disasters. The Red Cross was priviliged to provide more than six million units of blood to hospitals and clinics across the U.S.
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Preparedness, Health and Safety Training
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Public Safety, Disaster Services
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Being prepared for emergencies is crucial at home, school, work and in your community.
Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood, workplace or school or can confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services – water, gas, electricity or telephones – were cut off?
Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away. The best way to make you and your family safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes.
The American Red Cross offers courses to help you prepare for emergencies. To take a Red Cross course, sign up through your local chapter (www.redcross.org).
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Service to the Armed Forces
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Human Services
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Military/Veterans
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The American Red Cross links members of the U.S. Armed Forces with their families during a crisis. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, the Red Cross quickly sends emergency communications to deployed service members on behalf of their family. Military members can have peace of mind knowing that when they are on a mission, in training or stationed far from home-and leaving cell phones and emails behind-they are still connected to home.
While providing service to 1.4 million active duty military personnel and their families, the Red Cross also reaches out to more than 1.2 million members of the National Guard and Reserves and their families living in nearly every community in America.
Red Cross workers in hundreds of chapters and on military installations briefed 974,573 departing service members and their families regarding available support services, and explained how the Red Cross may assist them during the deployment.
Both active duty and community-based military can count on the Red Cross to provide emergency communications that link them with their families back home, access to financial assistance in partnership with the military aid societies, information and referral and assistance to veterans. Red Cross personnel form a global network in 700 U.S. chapters, military installations worldwide and in forward deployed locations in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Disaster Services
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Public Safety, Disaster Services
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Adults
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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The American Red Cross can provide two types of assistance after a disaster – hard and soft.
Hard assistance provides material items and may include feeding, shelter, clean-up kits, comfort kits and financial assistance.
Soft assistance minimizes immediate disaster-caused suffering through listening, guidance, advocacy, and counseling.
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International Services
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Public Safety, Disaster Services
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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American Red Cross International Services helps vulnerable people and communities around the world prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and health emergencies by mobilizing the power of the world's largest humanitarian network, made up of 186 Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies and more than 97 million volunteers. In all our work, we abide by the seven fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.
- Disaster Response and Recovery including the Tsunami Recovery Program
- Disaster Preparedness
- Disease Prevention including the Measles Initiative, malaria prevention and HIV/AIDS programs
- International Family Tracing
- Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law and Exploring Humanitarian Law
Working with our partners around the globe, the American Red Cross helps to build the local capacities of our sister Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, collaborates with those to train and organize volunteers and educate communities, and establishes partnerships with other public and private organizations to strengthen and complement our core international services and initiatives.
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