Red Cross

Noelene from the Red Cross came to talk to us about their services in Tasmania. Apart from the 27 services they provide in Tasmania the Red Cross has geared themselves to not only provide relief after disasters (on personal, family or population scale) but also prevent disasters from occurring. That means delivering meal services to the elderly, emergency home alarm service, first aid training, patient and prison support and another great one, Community Visitors Scheme where volunteers befriend people with mental illness in the community to help them socialise and become part of the community. Another service the Red Cross does in Tasmania is with their Good Start Breakfast Club, providing healthy breakfasts for children who would otherwise have nothing to eat before they leave home.The Red Cross Mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people in Australia and internationally by mobilising the power of humanity.

Pictured above is our City of Devonport Lions Club Board Director Walter van Praag who's mother Connie spent time in a Swiss Red Cross run children's camp in France after the second world war! She now enjoys the safety of a Red Cross emergency button in her Canberra home where she lives on her own.

The Red Cross website is here: http://www.redcross.org.au/TAS