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In the News
If you're anything like us, front-page newspaper stories represent a quick and
sobering moment in your already-too-busy day, making you wish you had the time and energy
to do more. Here's your chance to help--no time or energy required!
Darfur Crisis
December 8, 2006
"After a series of violent attacks over the past two months, at least 50,000
civilians in
southern Darfur, Sudan, have fled to the arid countryside. Villages have been burned,
civilians shot, water sources, and food stocks destroyed. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins
Sans Frontieres (MSF) is providing surgical assistance to the wounded, has set up fixed and
mobile health clinics, and is distributing plastic sheets, blankets, and food."
Help Darfur victims now!
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
August 29, 2006
BAKER, La. — The laughter and shouts of more than 80 'New Orleans kids' who filled the Baker
recreation gymnasium were music to the ears of Camp Director Dewane Franklin. If the kids
hadn't been playing there or on the grassy, tree-lined fields outside, "they probably would
have been in their trailers, fighting with each other — there's just no space," Franklin said.
For kids whose lives were dramatically changed by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, Baker summer day
camp was a place to go for 10 hours every weekday and be kids, away from cramped trailers
and adults' worries. They could share what they saw and how it felt to lose their homes and
neighborhoods to wind and water. They could see and learn about their new community."
Help our southern neighbors now!
Indonesian Earthquake
June 07, 2006
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Ibu Raja was crying when American Red Cross worker
Sujata Bordoloi approached her. Raja's village in Klaten, Indonesia, was leveled by the
May 27 earthquake that killed her beloved daughter and many of her neighbors.
Help Indonesian Earthquake victims now!
Tsunami Relief
January 12, 2007
"On New Year's Eve of 2005, as disturbing images of the Indian Ocean tsunami gripped the world,
American Red Cross Tracing Delegate Sara Blandford boarded a plane. [She] explains how to
properly fill out a tracing form as part of training for new Sri Lanka Red Cross Society
caseworkers…Two days later, Sara gathered with ten volunteers—themselves survivors—
under a tree, finding little refuge from the relentless Sri Lankan heat and humidity.
Her mission: a crash course on the Red Cross art of reuniting families torn apart by disaster
and conflict. Her classroom: the Ampara district, where the waves claimed the highest number
of lives and displaced people on this tear-drop shaped island nation that is roughly the size
of West Virginia."
Help with Tsunami relief now!
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