Our vital work is made possible by people like you, who learn how good it can feel to lend a helping hand. Red Cross "everyday heroes" come from all walks of life. They're all ages. Everyone has something special to offer . . . including you.
Your local Red Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, whatever your schedule. Think you don't have any skills to offer? You'd be surprised. And, if you need training, we'll provide it.
The Red Cross depends on volunteers, who constitute 97 percent of our total work force, to carry on humanitarian work:
- Every year, the American Red Cross is there for hurricane, earthquake, and other disaster victims--including 150 families forced from their homes by fire, nationwide, every day.
- 175,000 volunteers worked to prevent, prepare for and respond to nearly 64,000 disaster incidents last year.
- Among our emergency services for the men and women of the armed forces is the delivery of urgent family messages--one every 22 seconds.
- Over 24,000 volunteers serve as chairs, members of boards of directors, or on advisory boards for local Red Cross units.
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