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Red Cross Seeks Financial Help for Home Fires Assistance Wayne Pike Chapter helps over 70 locals victims in past year. Honesdale PA, February 27, 2008 – Each year, Red Cross chapters across the country respond to thousands of disasters, large and small, many of which go unnoticed in the news headlines. In the past year, the Wayne Pike Chapter of the American Red Cross responded to 16 home fire disasters, helping over seventy individuals in Wayne and Pike Counties recover from these devastating events. Marita C Wenner, Executive Director stated "When families suffer home fires they face a devastating loss, most of the time they have lost everything. The Red Cross provides immediate emergency assistance to our neighbors with food, clothing, shelter, medical supplies and emotional support." Ms Wenner continued. "Each family can cost the Red Cross hundreds of dollars in assistance. All Red Cross assistance to victims is free and is funded by donated money from the local community. Our local disaster relief fund is nearly depleted and we need to replenish our fund so we can continue to help our neighbors when they need it most." Your help is needed to ensure that the Wayne Pike Chapter of the American Red Cross can be there wherever and whenever disaster strikes. The best way to help a disaster victim is through a financial donation to the American Red Cross. The Wayne Pike Chapter is located at 1111 Main Street, Honesdale PA 18431. For more information you can call 570-253-2310 or 296-5229 or online at www.redcrossonline.org
The American Red Cross has helped people mobilize to help their neighbors for 125 years. Last year, victims of a record 72,883 disasters, most of them fires, turned to the nearly 1 million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross for help and hope. Through more than 700 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people each year gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world. Almost 4 million people give blood—the gift of life—through the Red Cross, making it the largest supplier of blood and blood products in the United States. The Red Cross helps thousands of U.S. service members separated from their families by military duty stay connected. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, a global network of more than 180 national societies, the Red Cross helps restore hope and dignity to the world's most vulnerable people. An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and programs. The Red Cross is not a government agency; it relies on donations of time, money, and blood to do its work. |