FACTS

• Exists to serve all of the residents of Cherokee County, providing education and certified training programs for individuals, schools, businesses, civic organizations, industry and municipalities.

• Promotes health and safety in the community through classes in Lifeguarding, Water Safety, Babysitting, Disaster Prevention and Survival, Safe Living for Seniors, First Aid, Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation and AED operation.

• Serves as the authorized liaison between members of the United States Armed Forces and their family members by providing a 24/7 emergency communication network.

• Provides emergency shelter, temporary housing, clothing, food, first aid, transportation and relief and social services to victims of residential fires, tornadoes, floods, emergency evacuations, hurricanes or other disasters.

• Partners with other community service organizations and government agencies to bring needed services to Cherokee County residents such as utility assistance for low income seniors or persons on disability income.

• Supports the efforts of ARC Blood Services by recruiting volunteers and blood donors.

• Recognizes that volunteers – more than 200 of them – are the backbone of the Cherokee County ARC. Volunteers represent 99 percent of the chapter staff.

• Extends the compassion and generosity of the people of Cherokee County to other disaster-affected areas by providing trained disaster volunteers.

• Prides itself on the fact that 98 percent of all money contributed to the chapter remains in Cherokee County. The bulk (and often more) of the remainder is returned to the chapter in the forms of grants and training scholarships.

• Celebrates 90+ years of service to Cherokee County, chartered originally in 1917 and re-chartered in 1996.

• Lives the mission of the ARC – To ease human suffering through education, prevention and prompt relief efforts.

• Depends solely on contributions from individuals, businesses, corporate and municipal entities and fund raisers to sustain itself and to provide its services to Cherokee County.

Counts on people like you to become members of the American Red Cross by donating money, services, time or blood.