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Volunteer Information
South Central WI Red Cross
If you like to help people you have come to the right place. The Red
Cross is recruiting volunteers to be trained and ready to respond to
disasters. Ready to Volunteer?
Get Started Now!
If you are going to be a Red Cross volunteer, you can begin learning about the organization right now:
The American Red Cross is one of several community organizations
working together to respond to disasters. The Red Cross involves
annually matching knowledge, skills, interests and experience of
individual's with opportunities to serve their community.
We Depend on Volunteers
Volunteers constitute 96 percent of our total work force to carry on our humanitarian work:
- Every year the Red Cross responds to more than 70,000 disasters—including approximately 150 home fires every day.
- About 11 million Americans turn to us to learn first aid, CPR,
swimming, and other health and safety skills. Last year, more than
158,000 people volunteered to teach those courses.
- Half the nation's blood supply— six million pints annually—is collected by more than 155,000 Red Cross volunteers .
- Among our emergency services for the men and women of the armed
forces is the delivery of urgent family messages—around the clock and
around the globe.
- More than 30,900 volunteers serve as chairs, members of boards of
directors, or on advisory boards for local Red Cross units - chapters,
Blood Services regions, and military stations.
- As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement,
Red Cross reconnects more than 8,000 families separated by conflicts
and disasters around the world through international tracking services
and Red Cross messages.
For volunteers to become Certified, please click on the link below:
Online Volunteer Orientation
Volunteer Opportunities
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