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Red Cross Disaster Volunteer
posted on October 01 2010 by George Adams from Red Cross
Red Cross Disaster Relief focuses on meeting the emergency disaster-caused needs of individuals and families. The Red Cross responds to disasters ranging from a single-home fire to national disasters. Emergency response activities are cost-effective and community-based.
When a disaster threatens or strikes, we provide food, shelter and health related services to address basic human needs. In addition, we help individuals and families to resume their normal daily activities independently. This may include a referral or a way to pay for what is needed most: groceries, new clothes, rent, emergency home repairs, transportation, medicines and occupational tools.
The Red Cross also feeds emergency workers, handles inquiries from concerned immediate family members outside the disaster-affected area, and links disaster victims to other available resources.
Our Services
Mass Care - Emergency Relief to the Community
Through Mass Care, the Red Cross provides services and supplies to large numbers of people and to the community as a whole. These include sheltering, feeding, bulk distribution of items such as clean-up and salvage supplies and information about the availability of these services and recovery.
Individual Client Services
The Red Cross serves individuals and families with disaster-related needs through individual casework. These activities may include direct emergency assistance for replacement of essential items, counseling services, health-related services and reunification or welfare information services. After a disaster, the Red Cross continues to work with clients and community resources on longer term recovery needs.
Disaster Services Operations
The Red Cross mobilizes the people and material resources needed to respond to a disaster. These activities include staffing, logistics, warehousing, providing communications equipment, and operations management at the national Disaster Operations Center (DOC). Also, the Red Cross supports clients through the Response Center Enterprise, which provides emergency information during a disaster from the Red Cross, community partners, and government.
How We Work
Although the American Red Cross is not a government agency, its authority to provide disaster relief was formalized in 1905 when the Red Cross was chartered by Congress to “carry out a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply that system in mitigating the suffering and other great national calamities and to devise and carry out measures for preventing those calamities.”
To serve those in need, we work to build local capacities, mobilize and empower communities, and establish partnerships with other public and private organizations whose capabilities strengthen and complement disaster relief initiatives
Red Cross volunteer
posted on October 01 2010 by George adams from Red Cross
Getting Started
If you are interested in becoming a Red Cross volunteer, the first step is to complete an online application.
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http://www.cincinnatiredcross.org/index.asp?IDCapi - American Red Cross
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