Volunteers at American Red Cross National Headquarters Sort through Holiday
Cards for Wounded Service Members
WASHINGTON, December 22, 2007 -- On December 5, 2007, the American Red
Cross and Pitney Bowes partnered together to ensure that holiday cards would
get to the wounded service members this holiday season. Today, nearly 200
volunteers sorted through 120,000 holiday cards that will be sent to 30
military hospitals nationwide and to Red Cross offices in five combat zones in
Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition, cards will be sent to the Regional
Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany.
B-roll of today's card sorting activities will be available at 4 p.m.
Eastern Time and contains footage of volunteers at Red Cross national
headquarters in Washington, DC, sorting through cards for wounded service
members. It will also show close ups of some of the cards and contain
soundbites from officials from the American Red Cross, Pitney Bowes Inc. and
Walter Reed Medical Center. Instructions on how to access this footage on our
FTP site can be found below.
Video Instructions: (Video Available at 4 p.m. Eastern TimeSaturday,
December 22, 2007) -- Website: http://www.videobluemoon.com/login.php
-- Login -- e-mail address field: xmascards (this should all be lower
case and one word)
-- Password: redcross (this should all be lower case and one word)
No courtesy required, material comes pre-bugged.
Additional information on this program can be found on
http://www.redcross.org/pressrelease/0,1077,0_314_7350,00.html and on
http://www.redcross.org/article/0,1072,0_312_7396,00.html.
All American Red Cross disaster assistance is free, made possible by
voluntary donations of time and money from the American people. You can help
the victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year, disasters
like the California wildfires, by making a financial gift to the American Red
Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which enables the Red Cross to provide shelter,
food, counseling and other assistance to victims of disaster. The American Red
Cross honors donor intent. If you wish to designate your donation to a
specific disaster please do so at the time of your donation. Call 1-800-
REDCROSS or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish). Contributions to the Disaster Relief
Fund may be sent to your local American Red Cross chapter or to the American
Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013. Internet users can make a
secure online contribution by visiting www.redcross.org.
Contacts:
Devorah Goldburg
(202) 439-0720
Karen Coates
(202) 439-0716
SOURCE American Red Cross
