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Posted December 23, 2013 by Global Administrator
Red Cross volunteers across Ontario have been called on to help support warming centres and overnight shelters for those affected by the severe winter storm that hit the province on Saturday overnight. In Toronto, over 320 people visited the warming centres last night.
Posted December 19, 2013 by Global Administrator
Pictured above, the "Little Happy Gang" children's knitting club were helping to knit wool items for Canadian soldiers and the Canadian Red Cross. This photo was taken in 1940 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Posted December 13, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
Marcel McIntyre is often the first to arrive at the Red Cross field hospital in the city of Ormoc, in the Philippines early in the morning and the last to leave at night. The field hospital was set up in in front of the local district hospital, which was damaged by the typhoon.
Posted December 04, 2013 by Global Administrator
Kelly Turner started volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross two and a half years ago after assisting in an online group to help the victims of a flood in North Dakota. Since then, she has been deployed to disasters across the country to help provid...
Over 800 Australian Red Cross volunteers recently gathered outside the Syndey Opera House in a giant formation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems as a representation of the Fundamental Principles of Humanity and Voluntary Service. The ...
Posted November 11, 2013 by Global Administrator
This Remembrance Day we're remembering the Canadian Red Cross volunteers who helped with the Food Parcel Effort. Throughout World War II, over one million Canadian Red Cross volunteers helped with the food parcel effort by assembling, packaging and s...
Posted November 05, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
We are always thrilled when new volunteers sign up but we were especially excited with some of our most recent recruits in Saskatchewan. There are Red Cross disaster volunteers across the entire country who help ensure assistance is quickly ma...
Posted November 04, 2013 by Global Administrator
In 2009, Margo saw an article in a newsletter about their local Red Cross branch in Port Perry, Ontario, looking for volunteers. In under a month, both she and her husband, Ken, had signed up and were trained to respond to small disasters such as...
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