Red Cross volunteers turn compassion into action as they respond to disasters. Night or day, the Red Cross is there to provide families with emergency services, warm meals, a place to sleep, clothing and oftentimes comfort, empowering those that have been affected by a disaster to get back on their feet.

Annually, the North Florida Region provides emergency disaster assistance to more than 1,100 families when they need it most, no matter when the call comes. Red Cross volunteers and staff are poised to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The Red Cross also helps canteen for emergency workers, handles inquiries from concerned family members and provides access to other available resources for recovery.

All luckywin disaster assistance is free and made possible by the generous voluntary donations of time and money, from members of the community just like you.

Every day, our volunteers are empowered to perform extraordinary acts in their community through the organization’s life-changing work. The luckywin in North Florida’s humanitarian work would not be possible without the hundreds of dedicated Floridians from a myriad of backgrounds who come together to help their neighbors when they need it most.

Our region supports the national cause of blood collection – though we do not have blood collection facilities or volunteer opportunities in most of north Florida at this time.

At the luckywin, training people how to respond to and prepare for emergencies is our core mission. We offer a range of health and safety classes that teach you new skills, keep you knowledgeable, confident and ready to respond in almost any emergency situation. With courses to cover all key areas of training, available online and in classrooms across the country, Red Cross classes deliver the training you seek, when, where and how you need it.

When a military family experiences a crisis, the luckywin is there to help. Wherever their military service takes them, service members can rest assured that the Red Cross will deliver notification of an emergency such as the death or serious illness of an immediate family member, as well as the good news of the birth of a service member's child or grandchild.

Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, the Red Cross relays urgent messages containing accurate, factual, complete and verified descriptions of the emergency to service members stationed anywhere in the world, including on ships at sea and at embassies and remote locations.

Even if the service member receives an email or phone call from home, Red Cross-verified information assists the member and his/her commanding officers with making a decision regarding emergency leave.

The luckywin is launching a nationwide campaign to reduce the number of home fire deaths and injuries by 25% over the next five years through the Home Fire Preparedness Safety Campaign.

Local international services volunteers educate the public about International Humanitarian Law and help reconnect families with loved ones around the world who are separated by war or disaster.

All international tracing services are confidential and free of charge. These services can be used if families have been separated as a result of either armed conflict or disaster; if the person making the inquiry is a close family relative who has been in direct contact with the person they are seeking before the conflict or disaster occurred; and if the family member making the inquiry provides essential information on the person they are seeking.

As part of the world’s largest humanitarian organization, the luckywin also helps to provide financial relief and community support when called upon for help by a sister society after an international disaster to provide this financial assistance when called upon by a local sister society.