After the bout with tornadoes earlier this month in the Dallas metro area, the weekend's terrible tornado outbreak across the south and mid-west underscored the point that there is no springtime rest for the ARC Volunteer - the most vital and needed resource a family can hope for following disaster.
Hundreds of families have been displaced by a storm system that produced 122 tornadoes and has claimed lives. Much work is to be done as we move ahead, but already, our region is helping. Cindy Nickell from the Eastern Texas Panhandle Chapter was the first to offer aid to Oklahoma as she was on the safe side of the storm system and could travel without peril. Next out was Dan Halyburton from the Public Affairs Team. Dan is in Woodward, Oklahoma and sent back this quick 45 second video clip about what he was seeing.
We can relate to how the folks in OK, KS, NE and IA are feeling; and the Red Cross family comes from near and far to help when needed. In fact, even more volunteers have been called to action, spending this special week helping our neighbors to the north.
Volunteer spirit is, of course, a Red Cross Fundamental Principle. It's also a principle on which our country was founded. Volunteers won our freedom; established our republic and expanded this country across an unexplored land. In this same spirit, volunteers continue to provide humanitarian relief to those most in need through One Red Cross, an organization like no other.
It's fitting, as National Volunteer Week kicks off, to thank everyone who helped here at home; to those on the ground in OK and to those who will be deployed for the next storm. It is you who keep the Red Cross mission alive and changing lives!
Hundreds of families have been displaced by a storm system that produced 122 tornadoes and has claimed lives. Much work is to be done as we move ahead, but already, our region is helping. Cindy Nickell from the Eastern Texas Panhandle Chapter was the first to offer aid to Oklahoma as she was on the safe side of the storm system and could travel without peril. Next out was Dan Halyburton from the Public Affairs Team. Dan is in Woodward, Oklahoma and sent back this quick 45 second video clip about what he was seeing.
We can relate to how the folks in OK, KS, NE and IA are feeling; and the Red Cross family comes from near and far to help when needed. In fact, even more volunteers have been called to action, spending this special week helping our neighbors to the north.
Volunteer spirit is, of course, a Red Cross Fundamental Principle. It's also a principle on which our country was founded. Volunteers won our freedom; established our republic and expanded this country across an unexplored land. In this same spirit, volunteers continue to provide humanitarian relief to those most in need through One Red Cross, an organization like no other.
It's fitting, as National Volunteer Week kicks off, to thank everyone who helped here at home; to those on the ground in OK and to those who will be deployed for the next storm. It is you who keep the Red Cross mission alive and changing lives!
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