Red Cross honors volunteers, gears up for Amplify Austin

Red Cross honors volunteers, gears up for Amplify Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The American Red Cross, known for their worldwide work during disasters and support in local communities, celebrates their thousands of volunteers in the month of March every year. In combination with Red Cross Month, our local chapter, serving Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Milam, Travis, and Williamson counties, is hoping to raise funds during Amplify Austin. This area-wide fundraiser for local non-profits kicks…

The León de Plaza del Caribe, the arch of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico and the streetlights of the Casa Alcaldía de Ponce were integrated this week to the 18 special lights that companies and institutions of the south carry out in honor of the Boricua chapter of the American Red Cross and its army of volunteers. Only in terms of physical and mental health, this non-governmental organization (NGO) has made it possible for 66…

American Red Cross remains committed to helping everyone as needs increase

By Tim Poe, American Red Cross volunteer Portrait of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. She was bent over, sobbing, frustrated, nearly everything in her family’s apartment destroyed. We sat in an American Red Cross vehicle outside a partially burned apartment complex. It was near the beginning of the school year, and she…