Twitter…But before you finish reviewing your check list and send your little horror buffs in search of candy, make sure they’re equipped with more than just their swords and magic wands. This year, the American Red Cross has published its annual guidelines to ensure that your night of trick-or-treating is as safe as possible. Review [...]
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Seven-year-old Yasmin Fosu, of Boca Raton, Florida had quite a benevolent birthday. As her birthday party rolled around she humbly asked her guests to use the money they would have spent on a gift as a donation to the Red Cross. Thanks to Yasmin Fosu’s humble request and generous guests, she was able to donate [...]
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This fall, the GPBAC Youth Council is spearheading a community project to send 200 holiday stockings to locally-based military reserve units who will be stationed overseas during the holiday season. We’ve partnered with the Greater West Palm Beach Women’s Club, who sewed all of our stockings for us on October 6th. Our local Red Cross [...]
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The American Red Cross has been selected by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Soceities as a winner of its 2007 Together for Humanity Youth Award! The award was won in a tie with the Italian Red Cross in the category of “Increasing Civil Society and Red Cross Red Crescent Capacity”. I [...]
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I can’t even count how many times I have heard people say that they will do something “when they have the time”. While they are sitting in their couches talking to me on the phone for over an hour about how they don’t have time to volunteer or “have too much on their plate right [...]
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Last month I wrote about our chapter being pushed to take over more counties. Well we had our meeting, and I was caught off guard as to how I was treated at first. As we were being introduced, the chair of the advisory council to the area we might be taking over said “Oh, you [...]
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Friday, October 12, 2007 — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined American Red Cross Chairman Bonnie McElveen-Hunter and President and CEO Mark W. Everson at the organization’s historic national headquarters building in Washington, D.C., to discuss the importance of partnerships in alleviating human suffering internationally. For the secretary-general, the meeting was also an opportunity to [...]
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has published a short and informative webpage that addresses how international humanitarian law applies to PMS companies that are working in Iraq or elsewhere. This has been an important issue in the news recently and as Red Crossers we should be able to discuss it! The resource is [...]
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Hello again everyone! In my first post, I introduced you to the general ideas of Project Planning. Over the next few months, I am going to walk you through how we planned the National Youth Institute-East last year so you can get the inside scoop on big time Project Planning. Now it’s time to get [...]
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So the other day, I was surfing around and I came across this awesome site the Red Cross set up to help people get prepared for disasters. The Be Red Cross Ready training site has a visual design that is pleasing to the eye – all of the content is very clean and organized. This [...]
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