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Club advisors, Andrea Svenneby and Temma Leiman, are hoping to get the Red Cross Club recognized at Gahr.
Written by Haley Cruz, Staff Writer
Assisting in times of need and giving to the less fortunate; that is what the Red Cross Club (RCC) will be doing this year. The American Red Cross Chapter in Long Beach and other Red Cross clubs at other schools have begun collaborating with the brand, new club.
“We are raising money for catastrophes [and] are also doing things for less fortunate families, like the toy drive we are doing right now,” Andrea Svenneby, the one of two advisors for RCC, said.
Svenneby and Temma Leiman are working together to get RCC on the road of becoming a recognized club at Gahr with the making an RCC T-shirt. However, many students interested in RCC were anxious as whether a membership required a blood donation.
“I think we will definitely organize an event [for donating blood] for a community service,” said Svenneby. “We are not doing a blood drive here, but we can go to places where students can [donate blood]. One of the big things is to learn CPR in the second semester.”
There are many opportunities for the RCC to help others in need already, such as the toy drive, volunteering at a local food bank, and representing the club by participating in a parade,
For further information, please see either of the club’s advisors, as well as RCC’s president, Andrew Pang (12). If interested in joining the Red Cross Club, their meetings are every other week during lunch in room 357.
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