American Red Cross
From the Youth Services section of the American Red Cross web site:
Since the founding of the Junior Red Cross in 1917, youth and the Red
Cross have been partners. Today, the involvement of young people with
the Red Cross is more important than ever. Our goal is to provide young
people with meaningful opportunities for education, training, and
volunteer/community service so that they remain a part of the Red Cross
family throughout their lives. Young people up to age 24 make up 35
percent of all Red Cross volunteers.
Volunteer opportunities with the American Red Cross cover the wide range of their services and include:
- Disaster Response - Community disaster education, disaster preparation, and disaster response
- Leadership
Development - Involvement in American Red Cross at the local and
national level in the form of leadership development camps,
policy-making groups, and advisory boards
- Health
and Safety Services - Becoming trained (and offering training) in the
numerous health and safety programs of the American Red Cross,
including aquatics, first aid, CPR, babysitting, and many other areas
- Biomedical Services - Providing community education on blood donation and organ and tissue donor recruitment
- International Services - Learn about international humanitarian law and its implications worldwide
- Armed
Forces Emergency Services - Provide volunteer service to help thousands
of U.S. service members separated from their families by military duty
stay connected
- Those shaded red above are services supported by programming of the student-led American Red Cross at Rice University.
For even more information about the American Red Cross visit the National American Red Cross or Greater Houston Area Chapter of the American Red Cross web sites.
To get involved in the campus chapter, contact Vatsala Goyal (vatsala.goyal@rice.edu).