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Finding purpose in service: Bobbi Montean, Red Cross Volunteer
- “Be open. Be willing to try something you’ve never ever done before.”
Looking back on over 30 years of volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross, Bobbi Montean speaks from a wealth of experience.
Finding purpose in service: Bobbi Montean, Red Cross Volunteer
- Looking back on over 30 years of volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross, Bobbi Montean speaks from a wealth of experience.
Prepare for wildfires with tips from the Canadian Red Cross
- With dry conditions across the province, the Canadian Red Cross has some tips for keeping your home safe and your loved ones prepared.
Ensuring communities are prepared for disaster
- Through private donor funding to the Red Cross, we were able to put together the necessary supplies to be able to provide each community with an emergency response team kit. The kit ensures a community’s emergency response team has many of the tools it needs to respond quickly and set up an emergency operations centre.
Bingo Makes Everything a Little Better
- COVID-19 has made for a challenging year for everyone. It is particularly challenging for the occupants of the isolation site in Winnipeg. The Canadian Red Cross Safety and Wellbeing team does what they can to make the isolation stay as pleasant as possible. They offer movie nights and trivia nights. And now they are running Friday night BINGO!
"I enjoy helping people": Art Brown on why he volunteers
- Art has been volunteering with us since 2017, and has been involved in numerous responses both within Manitoba and other parts of Canada.
"I enjoy helping people": Art Brown on why he volunteers
- Art has been volunteering with us since 2017, and has been involved in numerous responses both within Manitoba and other parts of Canada.
Learning How to Give
- Arthur E. Wright Community School in Winnipeg reached out to the Canadian Red Cross because they wanted to learn more about the organization and to help in any way that they could.
Red Cross Easter Bunny Delivers Treats
- The Easter Bunny hopped over to the Winnipeg First Nation Isolation Site on Easter Sunday to deliver treats for the children.
First Nations Health and Wellness Colouring Book
- The First Nations Health and Wellness Colouring Book is bursting with life and love. It is a gathering of Manitoba First Nation artists invited to react to and create with the themes of health and wellness. In partnership with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, the Canadian Red Cross produced the colouring book as part of a continuing conversation with First Nation communities to support health and wellness.
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