If you have some extra time on your hands, the Red Cross could use your help. Kenneth St. Charles, the regional CEO of the American Red Cross Louisiana Region, is putting out a statewide call for volunteers.
“It may be to stay overnight with clients who are there. It may be to help us to deliver supplies and water and blankets. It may be to make sure that our vehicles are ready to go,” St. Charles said.
The Red Cross is already supporting shelters and warming centers, but they need more people because they may need to open more of them.
“We have enough volunteers to run the shelters initially. But, with all of the power outages, we may have to open more shelters, and we may have to keep the ones open longer than we have,” St. Charles explained.
If you don’t know where to start, St. Charles says that’s no problem – training only takes about two hours, and you can do it from the comfort of your own home.
“Especially what we call most of our entry-level positions, like being a shelter volunteer, or working in a distribution site to help us to move equipment,” St. Charles said.