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Marcando La Diferencia<br />
Making a Difference<br />
La Cruz Roja Americana<br />
Fuente: José Bueno, Gerente Regional de Preparación<br />
Durante un desastre la Cruz Roja Americana proporciona ayuda a cualquier<br />
persona que la necesite, sin importar su nacionalidad o estado migratorio. La<br />
Cruz Roja no se fija ni en su etnicidad ni su contexto cultural, simplemente<br />
ayuda a todas las personas que necesiten ayuda.<br />
• Parte de nuestra<br />
misión humanitaria es<br />
alimentar, dar refugio<br />
y otras formas de<br />
asistencia a personas<br />
sin importar su<br />
religión, raza o estatus<br />
migratorio.<br />
• La Cruz Roja es una<br />
entidad de caridad y<br />
no una agencia del<br />
gobierno y personas<br />
afectadas por un<br />
desastre no tienen<br />
que ser ciudadanos<br />
americanos para recibir servicios de la Cruz Roja.<br />
• La Cruz Roja no le pedirá mostrar identificación a las personas que quieran estar<br />
en nuestros refugios.<br />
• Nosotros sí le pedimos a las personas que vienen a nuestros refugios el nombre<br />
y la dirección donde vivían antes del desastre para saber quién usa nuestros<br />
servicios.<br />
• Para recibir algunos servicios de las Cruz Roja, como lo son los servicios de<br />
recuperación, vamos a pedirle a estas personas la dirección donde vivían antes del<br />
desastre. Para personas que no tienen identificación del gobierno normalmente<br />
pedimos un documento alternativo como una factura de agua o electricidad.<br />
• Para más información visite nuestro sitio web www.redcross.org/cruz-roja.html<br />
American Red Cross<br />
Source: Jose Bueno, Regional Preparedness Manager<br />
Altar’d State Employees Help<br />
Children in Crisis<br />
Source: Ken Hair, President/CEO, Children in Crisis<br />
Altar’d State, a women‘s fashion alternative<br />
recently presented Children in Crisis a check for<br />
$3,882.75 to help provide a home and care to<br />
the abused, neglected and abandoned children<br />
of the local community. The donation funds<br />
were collected by the Altar’d State employee<br />
volunteer program called “Mission Monday.”<br />
According to Ken Hair, CIC President & CEO, “We<br />
opened the Children’s Neighborhood in February 2008<br />
and since then; we’ve provided a home to about 875 Kids and have kept<br />
all of our brother and sister sibling group families together. We continue<br />
to have a critical need for funds to help sustain operations and care for the<br />
at-risk children of our community. We can’t thank the employees of Altar’d<br />
State enough for their wonderful support.”<br />
CIC is a 501, (c), (3) non-profit community charity of caring people<br />
providing homes and establishing hope to the abused, neglected and<br />
abandoned children of our community. Together we can make a difference<br />
in the life of a child. To learn more about CIC, visit childrenincrisisfl.org,<br />
or call 850-864-4242.<br />
Pictured in photo left to right: Lesley Lowrey, Children In Crisis Office<br />
Manager, accepts a donation of $3,882.75 from Halee Bryant representing<br />
the employees of Altar’d State through their volunteer program called<br />
“Mission Monday.” The funds will be used to give local at-risk foster<br />
children a safe, loving home at the CIC Neighborhood.<br />
During an emergency, the Red Cross delivers help to whoever needs it, regardless<br />
of citizenship status. The Red Cross doesn’t see cultural or ethnic backgrounds,<br />
just a person who needs help.<br />
• As part of our humanitarian mission,<br />
the Red Cross will feed, shelter and provide other<br />
forms of support without regard to race, religion<br />
or citizenship status.<br />
• The Red Cross is a charity, not a<br />
government agency, and people who have<br />
disaster-caused needs do not need to be<br />
American citizens to access Red Cross<br />
services.<br />
• The Red Cross will not ask people to show<br />
any form of identification in order to stay<br />
in our shelters.<br />
• We do ask people staying in our shelters for their names<br />
and pre-disaster addresses so that we can track who is using our services.<br />
• In order to receive some Red Cross services, such as meeting with a caseworker<br />
to facilitate disaster recovery, we will need to verify a person’s pre-disaster address.<br />
For people who don’t have government-issued identification, we can usually do this<br />
through alternative means, such as a copy of a utility bill.<br />
www.conexionflorida.com<br />
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