2009/10/8 George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/8 George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
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.