Your American Red Cross is here for you.  From providing disaster response to a home fire or other natural disaster, to providing life saving skills training, disaster preparedness training, and communicating critical messages to our armed forces and their families, the Red Cross is here for you.

 

Disaster Services

   

Each year, the American Red Cross responds immediately to more than 70,000 disasters, including home fires, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous materials spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters.

Although not a government agency, the Red Cross has been chartered by Congress since 1905 to "carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same." The Charter is not only a grant of power, but also an imposition of duties and obligations to the nation and victims of disaster.

 

All Red Cross assistance is free, provided by the donations of time and money from the American people.  Red Cross disaster services focus on meeting people's immediate emergency disaster-caused needs. When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross provides shelter, food, health and mental health services to address basic human needs. 

The Red Cross also feeds emergency workers, handles inquiries from concerned family members outside the disaster area, provides blood and blood products to disaster victims, and helps those affected by disaster to access other available resources to enable them to resume their normal daily activities as quickly as possible.

If you or someone you know is need of Red Cross assistance please call    (573) 335-9471  (573) 335-9471 
or email: [email protected]

 

Blood Services

In the U.S., a blood transfusion is needed about every two seconds. The demand continues to outpace the supply, in part because today's medical techniques require more blood transfusions. Because each blood donation is separated into three components—red cells, platelets and plasma—just one donation can help save up to three lives, maybe even someone you know.

And blood is always needed. It's perishable and must constantly be replaced. In the Missouri-Illinois Blood Services Region, we annually distribute over 500,000 blood products to patients in need. To do that, we count on about 1,200 donations of whole blood every day.

Please give.