Welcome to the Southwest Oklahoma Chapter of the American Red Cross. Each year over one million Americans serve as Red Cross volunteers serving local community needs… You can serve from right here in Southwest Oklahoma, helping people in emergencies, providing half the nation's blood supply, teaching first aid and CPR courses, delivering emergency messages to members of the military, organizing programs for the elderly, for the youth…

Red Cross volunteers work directly with people, serve on boards of directors, serve as managers, advisors, and provide behind the scenes support.

Be a Red Cross volunteer! Helping others feels good, and helps you feel good about yourself. Your local Red Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, opportunities to utilize your talents, or provide training to help you serve your community.

The American Red Cross responds to a disaster every eight minutes, around the clock, 365 days a year. But our humanitarian work wouldn't be possible without our tireless volunteers, who constitute 96 percent of our total work force.

Red Cross "everyday heroes" come from all walks of life and from all age groups. Everyone has something special to offer.

You're needed by the Red Cross. Right now.

Too busy? Your local Red Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, whatever your schedule.

We depend on volunteers, who constitute 96 percent of our total work force, to carry on our humanitarian work:

• Every year, the Red Cross is there for hurricane, earthquake, and other disaster victims--including 150 families forced from their homes by fire every day.

   

• 175,000 volunteers worked to prevent, prepare for and respond to nearly 72,000 disaster incidents last year.

   

• Over 11 million Americans turn to us to learn first aid, CPR, swimming, and other health and safety skills. Last year, more than 158,000 people volunteered to teach those courses.

   

• Half the nation's blood supply--six million pints annually--is collected by more than 155,000 Red Cross volunteers.

   

• Among our emergency services for the men and women of the armed forces is the delivery of urgent family messages--one every 22 seconds.

   

• Over 30,900 volunteers serve as chairs, members of boards of directors, or on advisory boards for local Red Cross units - chapters, Blood Services regions, and military stations.

   

• As part of the International Red Cross Movement, we work to ease human suffering on a global scale.

Don't wait another day to find out how good it feels to wear the Red Cross emblem. Contact your local Red Cross Volunteer Coordinator at (580) 482-5303 or email disaster.36144@yahoo.com.