Youth Run 4 Japan!

Josh Duhamel’s Tokidoki Relief Run for Japan will be this Sunday, March 27th, at Santa Monica Beach in the Los Angeles, California region. All funds and donations from the Relief Run will go to support the American Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami relief fund. This event is the second of its kind; the [...]

6 Months after Earthquake in Haiti

Greetings Red Crossers! The American Red Cross National Youth Council hopes that your Fourth of July was fantastic. As some of us celebrated our nation’s independence with fireworks and wearing red, white, and blue, others raised the flags of hope and progress as they remember another day that will be forever embedded in our world’s [...]

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Students support Haiti relief efforts

Since January, tens of thousands of students in over 70 schools (preschool through high school) in Burlington County, NJ, have donated $69,743 to American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti.  Many of the students participated in the Burlington County Chapter’s Changes Lives 2010 project, and looked under sofa cushions or did extra chores for change to [...]

Vanderbilt University Steps Up To Help Quake Victims

Youth all around the country and world are trying to think of ways to raise funds to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake.  A number of different student organizations at Vanderbilt University have stepped up to the challenge, including the Red Cross Club on campus.   Here is part of an article highlighting the club’s [...]

First Lady Michelle Obama Urges Public To Donate

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Haitian Earthquake: January 14th Update

I know a lot of youth around the country are quickly organizing to help the people of Haiti.  Please share what you are doing so we may share with other youth and we can make a larger difference.

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Earthquake in Haiti: Photoessay

A short time after the earthquake yesterday our International team in Washington DC was able to make contact with the head of our Haiti delegation via Skype. He was in his office in Port-Au-Prince when the earthquake hit. [10:36:42 PM] ARC – Matthew Marek – Haiti: people are scared and gathered in the streets [10:36:51 [...]

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