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Red Cross offers thanks, encouragement to volunteers
American Red Cross volunteers Sean and Kristen Flanagan speak with a woman who lost her home in a wildfire last year in Gates, Ore.
(Photo by Scott Dalton/American Red Cross)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Red Cross is using National Volunteer Week, which started on Sunday, as an opportunity to thank thousands of Oklahomans who volunteer and also to encourage others to help neighbors in times of tragedy.
Red Cross volunteers serve in lots of different ways:
• Blood donor ambassadors help to check people in during blood drives.
• Volunteer drivers deliver blood from Red Cross facilities to local hospitals.