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Please take a moment to register now! Please note: the American Red Cross is piloting a new registration form and you will need to sign in to register. Thank you for your patience!
Click here to learn more and to register to donate.
For more information about Faith and Health Ministries at Gloria Dei, please contact Mary Jo Hallberg, Parish Nurse, at 651.699.1378 ext 3031.
Did you know that the American Red Cross ...
- Directly touches the lives of one out of five Americans?
- Has a network of over 600 chapters and service regions across the nation?
- Has over half a million volunteers in the U.S.?
- Supplies nearly half the nations blood supply?
- Helps nearly 70,000 victims of emergencies and disasters every year?
- Trains more than 15 million people every year prepare for emergencies?
- Is part of a global network of 186 national societies?
- Sheltered more than 450,000 evacuees during Hurricane Katrina?
- Traces the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath?
- Locates family members abroad affected by war, famine, or strife?
- Provides emergency communication between the 2.6 million active duty and National Guard soldiers with their families back home?
- Briefed almost 1 million soldiers before their deployment?
Did you know that ...
- 475 times a day, the Red Cross connects deployed service members with their families.
- 19,000 times a day, someone outside the US receives urgent care following a disaster from the Red Cross and our partners.
- 43,000 times a day, another person receives life-saving Red Cross health, safety and preparedness training.
- 290,000 times a day, a child receives a measles vaccination from the Red Cross and partners.
- Every 60 seconds, the life saving mission of the American Red Cross has benefited 250 people.
- 200 times a day, American Red Cross volunteers help a family who lost everything in a house fire or other disaster.