Red Cross Honors Volunteers during National Volunteer Week

April 15 - 21 is National Volunteer Week – a time for the American Red Cross to celebrate the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who help the organization assist people in need.

Approximately 300,000 volunteers serve the organization, volunteering at veterans’ hospitals, teaching people lifesaving skills such as First Aid and CPR, helping staff blood drives, responding to home fires in the middle of the night and so much more.

Volunteers enable the Red Cross to respond to an average of nearly 64,000 disasters every year. They help train more than 5.9 million people in Red Cross lifesaving skills; help provide more than 369,000 services to military members, veterans and their families; and to reconnect more than 5,000 families separated by war or disaster around the world. In addition, as many as 2.8 million volunteer donors give blood every year.

A discount code to the Red Cross store will be available during the month of April. Volunteers can use the code VOLUNTEER18 for a 10% discount from April 1 – April 30.

The Red Cross invites the public to be a part of the lifesaving work it does and to sign up to volunteer. People can go to redcross.org/tennessee to learn more about volunteer opportunities and how to submit a volunteer application.