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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;">Karen Holmes works for the Federal Government as a Safety Officer and is a Cadre Member with the Disaster Team. Karen works in an agency that oversees organizations such as AmeriCorps, working to ensure safe and healthy environments by providing CPR and first aid training and certification. Her role requires her to be in DC so she is unable to deploy on missions associated with her job. However, she knew that her experiences would benefit the Red Cross, so Karen joined as a volunteer in 2008.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;">On her own initiative, Karen pursued several training opportunities within the Red Cross to diversify the types of assistance she can provide locally and nationally. She is a certified Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) driver, shelter trailer driver and shelter manager, instructor for CPR/first aid and a Disaster Action Team (DAT) responder.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;">On 23rd September 2017, Karen used two weeks of her vacation time to deploy to Dickinson County, TX, to help with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Each day, Karen and fellow volunteers loaded up an ERV with meals prepared by the Southern Baptist mobile kitchens. Karen drove the ERV and helped serve meals to those in need. Interacting with people is Karen&#8217;s favorite Red Cross activity. She describes how people impacted by Hurricane Harvey initially had a look of devastation on their faces that turned to a beacon of hope at the sight of the ERV.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;">Karen saw a community that was just starting to rebuild. The devastation was evident&#8211;furniture and clothing on the streets, children running out into the streets to obtain meals and people who had not eaten in a day or two because they had missed the prior visit(s). Many people did not have electricity or a working stove, and some were sleeping on mattresses on the floor, not wanting to leave their homes to go to a shelter. Whatever the individual circumstance, the residents were so thankful that the Red Cross was there. In four days, Karen and her fellow volunteers served 1,078 meals in one area and delivered 300 meals to a church another time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;">Karen enjoyed giving people the very special touch for which the Red Cross is known. Karen is grateful that her employers are so supportive, telling her that they are happy she deploys as they know how much this volunteer role with the Red Cross means to her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;">Learn more about&nbsp;<b><a href="http://www.redcross.org/about-us/our-work/disaster-relief/hurricane-relief/hurricane-harvey-relief-information">Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief</a></b>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-size-adjust: auto;">&nbsp;</span></span>
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