It’s Red Cross month, and the American Red Cross West Virginia Region hosted a Red Cross volunteer recruitment open house on Tuesday.

The event was held to encourage attendees to come and learn about volunteer opportunities in the areas such as: disaster preparedness and response, biomedical services, service to the armed forces, community engagement, administrative and more.

Volunteers carry out 90 percent of the humanitarian work of the red cross. This past year in West Virginia volunteers at the non profit organization assisted 1,057 families who experienced a local disasters. 800 of those events were home fires.

If you would like to become a volunteer please contact the chapter at 304-255-1508 or 304-340-3661 or email Kelly Kolb at kelly.kolb@redcross.org. You can also click here for more details on their website.