This year, I thought about buying my dad a new shovel for the holidays. He loves doing yard-work and building things, so I thought that would be a nice gesture. But this year, the shovel I’m thinking about buying won’t help him plant new trees or create a new garden. Instead, it will help families save their homes, crops and lives when floods threaten.    

Here’s how. For a gift of $25 to the Red Cross Holiday Giving Catalog, I can provide, not one, but 5 Shovels to protect people in flood-prone communities. Or for $100, my gift would provide a shovel, gloves, wheelbarrow and rake. Not only would my Dad be honored with a gift in his name, but he would be pretty impressed by my bargain shopping skills.

So before you buy another tool to add to your Dad’s overflowing garage collection, check out this video from Jean Frantz Lazard, a Haitian Red Cross volunteer who worked with the American Red Cross this past summer to prevent flooding in Port-au-Prince.

 

Lindsey