Our local American Red Cross is Southern Arizona's premiere provider of life saving responder classes designed to prepare individuals and workplaces for emergencies. Our chapter trains more than 22,000 people each year in Southern Arizona through the following life-saving classes:
Blood is needed in times of emergency, but the ongoing need is also great.
Every two seconds someone needs a blood transfusion. Your blood donation means so much to individuals who need it. You can help make a difference to cancer patients, accident victims, premature infants, and people with chronic diseases who all need your help.
Giving blood doesn't take much time. Each blood donation has the power to save as many as three lives. But whole blood only has a shelf life of 42 days. That is why it is so important to be a regular and frequent donor. America needs to have an adequate blood supply available at all times to meet any of the challenges we might face.
Call 1-800-REDCROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org to make an appointment to donate blood today.
Service to the Armed Forces (SAF)
We thank the sponsor of our local SAF program:
"You have been our angels. Every time I have called, you have always been there..." -Southern Arizona Chapter SAF Client
The American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces (SAF) program provides an essential service to US Armed Forces. The American Red Cross has traditionally served as an intermediary contact between military members and their families worldwide.
The Southern Arizona Chapter responds to a call every 10 hours from local military families. We assist those whose loved ones are deployed abroad, and service men and women stationed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Fort Huachuca, and other local bases.
Through the SAF program, we send and relay emergency messages to and from family members and deployed military personnel anywhere in the world, and verify and confirm medical emergencies so that Commanding Officers can authorize emergency leave for military personnel. This service is provided in peacetime and war.
For more information about the SAF program, please call (520) 318-6740.
Watch this moving example of how our SAF program makes a huge personal difference to military families:
Reaching the World
National & International Disaster Relief
In partnership with our national and international organizations, and with other partner relief agencies, we help provide aid for large-scale disasters. Whether Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, the Southeast Asian Tsunami, or in disasters to come, we provide the same kind of assistance as we provide for local disasters on a much larger scale.
International Tracing & Messaging Services
When contact is broken between family members —by warfare, natural disaster or other emergency— concern over the fate of loved ones takes a powerful emotional toll. As part of our mission, our local chapter assists southern Arizonans to relay messages to their loved ones in other countries or to find their lost loved ones abroad. As a component of a national program, this service helps to restore a family's peace of mind by locating loved ones, relaying messages between relatives who have no other way to communicate, assisting in the reunion of family members and helping families find the additional assistance they need.
