Expo Exhibitor (Volunteerism)

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Helping Americans In Need

Your Support Today Will Provide Hope And Relief Tomorrow

There is a place...
There is a place, where a total stranger will give you food and shelter when disaster strikes. There's a place where someone you never knew will help your family prepare for emergencies. A place where you can support your community by donating blood, volunteering, or making a contribution. That place is the American Red Cross, and it is right there is your home town. When you help the American Red Cross, you help your neighbors.

Adult Volunteer Appeal
The Red Cross has a proud tradition of volunteers helping their neighbors in emergencies. Today we need you more than ever. We need good people to help the victims of disaster. We need good people to roll up their sleeves and donate blood. And we need good people to make financial gifts so the Red Cross will always be there to help. Won't you join us? Contact your local Red Cross and become part of the tradition of helping.

Blood Donation Appeal
Every two seconds, someone in America needs blood. You can help by donating blood at your local American Red Cross. Giving blood is easy. It only takes about an hour and a single donation can help save up to three lives. Be a hero to someone in immediate need. A friend, a neighbor, a stranger. Make an appointment to donate blood at the American Red Cross by visiting givelife.org today. When you help the American Red Cross, you help America. Together, we can save a life.

Disaster Relief Fund Appeal
Disaster victims need your help. The American Red Cross provides victims of disaster with food, shelter, counseling and more. Your support for the American Red Cross disaster relief fund helps victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year. To make a contribution, contact the American Red Cross today. Call 1-800-redcross or visit redcross-dot-org.

First Aid, CPR & AED Training
If your loved one started choking, or suffered sudden cardiac arrest -- would you know what to do to save their life? The American Red Cross has easy-to-learn first aid, CPR and AED training available for anyone who wants the skills, and the ability, to save lives. So, for the sake of your loved ones, co-workers and friends - call your local American Red Cross chapter to learn how to prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. When you help the American Red Cross, you help America.

Preparing For Home Fires
Four out of five Americans are unaware that home fires are the most common disaster threat. The American Red Cross reminds you to safeguard your family and home by taking simple steps to stay safe in case of a home fire .. Install smoke alarms outside each sleeping area and on additional levels of your home. Test each smoke alarm once a month and replace batteries at least once a year. Know at least two exits from every room and practice escape routes. To learn more, contact your local American Red Cross chapter.

Family Tracing Services
Every year, hundreds of families turn to the American Red Cross to locate loved ones who've gone missing during times of international war or disaster. If the pain of family separation is weighing heavily on your heart, begin your free and confidential search today by contacting your local chapter of the American Red Cross or visit redcross-dot-org. When you help the American Red Cross, you help America.

 

  The fundamental principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?

• Humanity: The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded on the battlefield, endeavours, in its international and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found. Its purpose is to protect life and health and to ensure respect for the human being. It promotes mutual understanding, friendship, cooperation and lasting peace amongst all peoples.
• Impartiality: It makes no discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. It endeavours to relieve the suffering of individuals, being guided solely by their needs, and to give priority to the most urgent cases of distress.
• Neutrality: In order to continue to enjoy the confidence of all, the Movement may not take sides in hostilities or engage at any time in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature.
• Independence: The Movement is independent. The National Societies, while auxiliaries in the humanitarian services of their governments and subject to the laws of their respective countries, must always maintain their autonomy so that they may be able at all times to act in accordance with the principles of the Movement.
• Voluntary Service: It is a voluntary relief movement not prompted in any manner by desire for gain.
• Unity: There can be only one Red Cross or one Red Crescent Society in any one country. It must be open to all. It must carry on its humanitarian work throughout its territory.
• Universality: The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in which all Societies have equal status and share equal responsibilities and duties in helping each other, is worldwide.
  

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Since its founding in 1881 by visionary leader Clara Barton, the American Red Cross has been the nation's premier emergency response organization. As part of a worldwide movement that offers neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, the American Red Cross distinguished itself by also aiding victims of devastating natural disasters. Over the years, the organization has expanded its services, always with the aim of preventing and relieving suffering.

Today, in addition to domestic disaster relief, the American Red Cross offers compassionate services in five other areas: community services that help the needy; support and comfort for military members and their families; the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products; educational programs that promote health and safety; and international relief and development programs.

The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—across the street, across the country, and across the world—in emergencies. Each year, in communities large and small, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to neighbors familiar and new--the nearly one million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through over 700 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world.

Some four million people give blood—the gift of life—through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States. And the Red Cross helps thousands of U.S. service members separated from their families by military duty stay connected. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global network of 181 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people.

An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs. The Red Cross is not a government agency; it relies on donations of time, money, and blood to do its work.

The American National Red Cross is headquartered in Washington, D.C.