American Red Cross Launches New Preparedness Initiative
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:29AMThe American Red Cross Launches a new site called Do More Than Cross Your Fingers a new initiative timed with September to coincide with National Disaster Preparedness Month.
It focuses on taking the proper steps to prepare for a disaster and features both a game called Prepare 4 and the actress Jamie Lee Curtis (American Red Cross Volunteer) on video discussing items to include in your preparedness kits.
Through my blog here, I was lucky to get a sneak peak before the official launch of today, but was asked to wait until the launch before mentioning it. I have to say the Red Cross did an excellent job putting this together.
It also timely since FEMA just released a report on American Preparedness, which as many of you know we are severely under-prepared. I did a brief post on this report you can view here: FEMA Issues Report On Personal Preparedness In America or you can view the report directly here at: Personal Preparedness in America.
At the very least be sure to check out the New Red Cross site, the first link above, watch the video, play the game, get prepared.
Reader Comments (3)
I think that we should all take our responsibility seriously, that we must take some steps to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Every person should have basic survival supplies, emergency food and water, warmth, etc. Make sure you pick up a survival kit at
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I think this is really very good news.I had not any idea about this information.Thank you very much for sharing this with us.I agree that we should take our responsibilities seriously.
This really is a great site. And with the Halloween safety tips, its nice to see that they are keeping it relevant and helpful.