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Join your local Red Cross and help prepare for Hurricane Season!

FREE Disaster Training for Volunteers

Seaford, DE: Hurricane Season started June 1st and the American Red Cross of the Delmarva Peninsula is seeking to train more volunteers. A Volunteer Orientation will be held at St. Peter’s Church in Lewes on July 9, 2008 from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm.

Why is YOUR local Red Cross seeking volunteers? Volunteers make up more than 95% of our work force, providing many of the Red Cross life-saving services that your local community depends on. During Hurricane Season, which runs November 30th, families and businesses on the Delmarva Peninsula will be at risk of weather-related emergencies. They can count on their local Red Cross, and trained local Red Cross volunteers, to open disaster shelters and care for those families left temporarily homeless.

There are many ways that volunteers help the Red Cross. These include:

• Disaster Responders
• Disaster Preparedness Presenters
• Health and Safety Instructors
• Lifeline Installers
• Community Events

To register for this Volunteer Orientation, residents are encourage to call the local Red Cross at 1-800-777-6620, option 7 or send an email to volunteer@redcrossdelmarva.org.

For more information about the Red Cross in your community, please visit www.redcrossdelmarva.org.

The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—across the street, across the country and across the world—in emergencies.  The American Red Cross of the Delmarva Peninsula serves the state of Delaware and Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties in Maryland. Last year, volunteers and paid staff responded to 177 disasters of varying sizes throughout our communities, providing disaster relief - free of charge – to over 750 people. 17,896 people were trained in lifesaving skills such as CPR and First Aid. Over 1100 emergency communications sent through the Red Cross kept members of the military in touch with their families. More than 400 seniors living independently were given peace of mind through our Lifeline personal emergency response program. More than 27,000 people on the Delmarva Peninsula attended Community Disaster Education presentations, teaching them the 3 steps for emergency preparedness. Since the Red Cross is not a government agency, it relies on valuable donations of talent, time and money to do its humanitarian work.  Marguerite H. Prueitt is the CEO of the American Red Cross of the Delmarva Peninsula. www.redcrossdelmarva.org. 1-800-777-6620