Are you looking for ideas on activities you can undertake during National Preparedness Month? Check out these free online resources from FEMA. Below are clickable links to training that relates to preparedness and disaster response. These links will open in a new window. These courses are free and online so you can take them at […]
By Bill Fortune, American Red Cross Geneva Conventions poster from Library of Congress Every day we are bombarded with the horrors of war. We wake up in the morning and bear witness to atrocities. Many live in fear for loved ones that are trying to survive in the midst of conflict. Many of those loved ones struggle […]
by Patricia Billinger In 2014, we’re celebrating 100 years of the Red Cross saving lives in Colorado.I’ve talked to more than a dozen regular people who are just like any one else, but with one important difference: they have used their ordinary hands to save someone’s life. In general, they all say the same two […]
Local Red Cross workers connected a Colorado mother with her daughter in Uganda after they had been separated for over 10 years. Sarah was separated from her family as a young girl when they fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo to escape a violent civil war. Sarah’s father, brother, and all but one sister […]
Diplomacy can break down. Borders can appear where none existed before. Divisions between cultures, languages and beliefs can push communities apart. But in times of disaster, coordination between nations and organizations is key in preventing unnecessary destruction and keeping people safe from harm. According to Steve Recca, this month’s Red Cross Lunch and Learn speaker […]
By Christina Eyre, Red Cross Volunteer As I walk up the steps of the church that shares its home with a small but committed Congolese congregation, I’m serenaded by Swahili hymns in three-part harmony. Immediately I feel under-dressed next to women resplendent in tailored kitenge of every color. The pervasive sense of joy must be […]
Volunteer Sue Wiseman (left) loads a food cambro on the ERV with the help of ERV partner Lew Savik from Montana Red Cross. Red Cross volunteers are working hard in east Washington as they support the relief efforts for the East Washington Wildfires. Sue Wiseman, from the Western Colorado Chapter, was deployed to be part of […]
The first thing I noticed was a white purse lying in the sidewalk about a block away. I had stepped out for a coffee run and hadn’t seen anything strange happen, but the white purse caught my attention as unusual. The first thing they teach you in Red Cross first aid training is to pay […]
By Bob Lieber, Volunteer Writer “What can we do to help?” That’s what the Red Cross volunteer asked Lana Hansen. Those words were so welcome — such a lifeline at a time of need Lana couldn’t believe there was actually someone offering to help, just when she needed it most. Lana had lived and worked […]
By Patricia Billinger Alma and her family were awoken at 3 a.m. by a call warning them to evacuate immediately because flood waters were coming. Alma, husband Guillermo, daughter Perla, son-in-law Gerardo and grand-daughters Yamileth and Yaretzi escaped to Guillermo’s sister’s home, leaving everything behind in their Longmont mobile home. They quickly realized they needed […]