Red Cross looking for local volunteers for Rapid Response team

Red

Cross looking for local volunteers for Rapid Response

team

The Metropolitan Atlanta chapter of

the American Red Cross is now recruiting for the next

AmeriCorps Rapid Response team.

The

15-person group will provide the community disaster

education and response for the local Red Cross for 11

months beginning in August.

According

to Kate Edmonds, one of the program's administrators and

a former Rapid Responder, the team's mission is to

provide both community disaster education and respond to

local and national disaster missions.

This si the

program's fourth year.

"Not

only does the program provide education money, it also

affords the Rapid Responders with experience in

organizing various projects, developing teaching and

public speaking techniques and polishing people

skills," said administrator Deborah Freeman.

Candidates

must be at least 18 years old available full-time,

including some weekends and evening hours for 11 months,

be interested in teaching and training and have at least

one year of prior voluntary service.

Participants

are paid $470 every two weeks and at the end of the

program receive an educational award of $4,725.

Interested

persons should submit a resume to Deborah Freeman,

Metropolitan Atlanta chapter of the American red Cross,

rapid Response Corps, 1955 Monroe Drive, NE, Atlanta, Ga.

30324 or faxed to 404-575-3083.