On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/10/8 George Herbert <[email protected]>: >> Red Cross volunteers do a little bit of prep work, typically, and a >> little training each year. And then a disaster hits and they drop >> everything and respond. > > Are most Red Cross volunteers directly involved in disaster response? > I would expect most of them to be doing fundraising, education and > publicity, and long term projects.
My experience - which may not be typical - is that they have a few people doing training instruction (first aid / first responder training, disaster training etc), a lot of people who are actual disaster responders (with much of the first group, and many more), and relatively few doing other stuff. I don't know what their statistics are, though, so I don't know if my experience is statistically valid across their volunteer set... -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
