Red Cross is there when needed most

To the editor:

March is Red Cross Month and the American Red Cross is asking you to join us in providing help and hope to people in need.

The Red Cross works tirelessly to help those who need assistance, whether down the street, across the country or around the world. We respond to disasters, help members of the military and teach lifesaving skills.

When you help with a gift of your time or your financial gift, you join the Red Cross. We want to thank those supporters whose generosity helps ensure we are able to continue our service to those who need us. Thanks to them, the Red Cross is there when needed most.

In the past year, the American Red Cross of Alaska responded to 140 local emergencies in 51 communities in Alaska, assisted 2,264 military men, women and their families, and trained 30,238 people in lifesaving skills.

Nationally, the Red Cross responds to disasters nearly 200 times every day. The organization provides around-the-clock link between those in the military and their families, and supplies blood and blood products to approximately 3,000 hospitals and transfusion centers across the country.

Red Cross Month is a great time for people to join the Red Cross. Please sign up to be one of our volunteers. Please take one of our lifesaving training classes. Please give a financial gift. Please join us and enable us to continue our work, both here at home and around the world.

Michelle Houlihan

Chief Executive Officer

American Red Cross

of Alaska