Giving Something That Means Something
By Coralie Chun Matayoshi, CEO, American Red Cross, Hawaii State Chapter
Around this time every year, we buy “stuff” for friends, families and special people in our lives. But how many golf shirts does your father need, and do candy and fruit baskets really mean anything to clients? This holiday season, give something that means something by donating to the Red Cross in their name. Help us fulfill our humanitarian mission of saving lives and giving hope to those in need.
Your donation can help provide infant-care kits for babies in emergency shelters, phone cards for deployed military heroes to call home, hot meals and blankets to provide warmth and security for disaster victims in shelters, comfort kits for wounded warriors or lifesaving measles vaccinations for children around the world.
The year 2012 was filled with life-changing disasters – from Hurricane Isaac and Hurricane Sandy to Midwest tornadoes, Colorado wildfires and the Aurora, Colo., tragedy, as well as everyday house fires, flooding and other disasters here at home.
