2009/10/8 George Herbert <[email protected]>: > 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...
The British Red Cross has a list of ways to volunteer: http://www.redcross.org.uk/TLC.asp?id=75777 Emergency response is just one part of one item on that list. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
