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Wanted:
Disaster Volunteers
The Iowa Rivers Chapter of the American Red Cross is
recruiting and training people interested responding to
disasters with the American Red Cross. Our training will prepare
you for both national-scale and local disaster response in our
chapter area. Your travel, food and lodging will be covered by the
Red Cross while on assignment.
Download
an application
here.
Learn
about the many Groups/Activities within Red Cross Disaster Services:
***Disaster Training Schedule
for other Iowa Chapters***
Classes Currently Scheduled:
Introduction to Disaster Services
Online Course located here.
The purpose of this basic level Disaster Services
online course is to engage and inspire the public to actively
participate in supporting American Red Cross disaster response. This
self-study course will introduce learners to American Red Cross Disaster
Services and allow them to discover how volunteers support this critical
mission and to explore ways they can become involved in a local chapter. This course is a prerequisite to all other disaster
training.
To register, please email: Dean Sweberg,
Director of Emergency Services, at
swebergd@iowarivers-redcross.org or by calling
641-753-3317.
Our local
volunteers are
trained
and ready to respond
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Our
volunteers are able to open up
a shelter for hundreds of
area residents within two hours of
being notified by local
authorities |
Our
caseworkers provide comfort and reassurance to victims of disasters
such as a house fire.
They also make sure the victims have somewhere to stay, food to
eat
and clothes to wear to
school or work. |
63
of our local volunteers served the
victims of Hurricanes Katrina,
Rita and Wilma in 2005. If you
would like to volunteer in 2006, contact Dean
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