TwitterThis evening I am incredibly proud to announce Gaurav Kikani as the 2010 American Red Cross Navin Narayan National Youth Scholar. This year the Navin Narayan Scholarship had a large number of fantastic applicants and before I write about Gaurav I want to thank all of you who have chosen to serve your community through [...]
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I was glancing through the news on RedCross.org when I came across this: “In May 2008, Green, a sophomore at Philadelphia Military Academy at Leeds and a second-year member of his school’s Red Cross Club, was riding home from track practice with some of his coaches and classmates. At 55th Street and Baltimore Avenue, he [...]
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Last month, Central Plains Region opened its doors to the Red Cross Club from Franklin Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas. Sam Crawford, Education, took the local 5th Graders on a tour of the building, including Hospital Services where he showed them how the blood is packed for transport and stored in the refrigerators until it [...]
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My greatest moments in the Red Cross haven’t been when I was personally responsible for a successful service project. They have rather been when I found out that someone I had worked with or mentored successfully continued my legacy through my old high school Red Cross Club or continued his or her involvement with the [...]
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I will never forget the many summers I spent in Texas visiting my cousins Navin and Nita when I was young. We always had so much fun jumping on the trampoline in the backyard, going to baseball games, and watching movies together. It was my last summer visit when I was 12 years old, though, [...]
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As Navin’s sister, I look back at my brother’s life with complete awe and admiration. Not only was he the most amazing and loving big brother, but he was also an incredibly compassionate and caring individual. His American Red Cross involvement began as a means to fulfill a high school community service requirement and lasted [...]
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As members of the Red Cross, we continually seek to find ways in which to help others. Some of us may well choose to travel to impoverished or wartorn places to accomplish this goal (and power to those who do!). So, if one day you were to find yourself taken captive in a wartorn country, [...]
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Navin Narayan began his involvement with the Red Cross when he was only 14 years old by cleaning manikins used to teach CPR and quickly sought ways to become more and more involved. As national disaster relief volunteer and trainer, international speaker on human rights, and tireless advocate for Red Cross causes, Navin changed the [...]
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The Red Cross is such a large organization that you sometimes question the impact that you can make as an individual. Can we really be the change we wish to see in the world or do we just get lost in a crowd of hope and ideals? Well, I have been struggling with this question [...]
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