After Hurricane Dolly made landfall in close proximity to the Texas-Mexico border, Texas’s governor declared 15 counties disaster areas. The Red Cross is calling for volunteers from all over the country so as to lend a hand.

The humanitarian organization which provides emergency assistance identified the neighborhoods in need of help and took care to provide personnel, equipment and supplies. No less than 400 volunteers from the Red Cross already offered emotional support and food in shelters, service centers and large-scale kitchens throughout Texas. 

Wednesday night two volunteers immediately arrived in Fresno. According to Ellen Knapp, CEO of the Fresno Madera Chapter of the American Red Cross, Gloria and Richard “are here this morning fill out all their documentation and paperwork and will leave at 12:30 to go into Texas to help the families that may need our help.”  Both spent 3 weeks in shelters aiding victims of hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States.

Annual Disaster Giving Program helps secure a consistent funding base for disaster relief services that enables the American Red Cross to respond immediately to the needs of people impacted by predictable or unpredictable  disasters of all magnitudes and at all levels, for free and regardless of cost.

This financial support together with the support of the American people are crucial “for the Red Cross' ability to provide immediate relief to people affected by disaster,” said Jeffrey Towers, chief development officer at the American Red Cross. “We thank these corporate donors for their leadership."