Wednesday 17 December 2008

The Red Cross helping this Christmas


Irish Red Cross:
This Christmas the members and delegates in the Irish Red Cross will be looking after older people, sick people, children and prisoners of war at home and overseas.
Christmas cards are for just Euro 4.50 or Euro 6.00 for a pack of eight cards. The Euro 4.50 pack contains smaller cards that are ideal for personal use, while larger cards that are idea for business use, as well as personal use, are on sale for just Euro 6.00. Both packs contain a selection of traditional, modern and religious images.


Swedish Red Cross:
The "Hugs for the Lonely" drive, which will run December 1st to 21st, is going national this year after a local Red Cross chapter in Västerås, west of Stockholm, made around 300,000 kronor selling embraces last year. People pay the Red Cross, and the money goes towards helping people, and then for every hug sold, a child gets a hug. The Red Cross also has an E-Shop where they sell cards, presents, calendars and much more and the money goes towards helping people all over the world. You can also donate a certain amount of money to help people e.g. you can pay $10 to help give transport to people who need medical care, or $50 to provide water purification tablets, enough to make 250 liters of safe drinking water, etc.

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