By: Brigitte Yuille, volunteer
As a military wife, new travel arrangements and adapting to
new locations often becomes routine. Every few years, these wives prepare to
pack everything up and go. For Renee Anderson, this meant moving her family
twelve hundred miles away from Wichita, Kansas, and the comforts of the
Midwest, to the U.S Capital, Washington D.C., also known as America’s political
juggernaut. Here, she and her family would settle into a new home and a new way
of life.
Anderson’s husband works for the U.S. Air Force. As “the
trailing wife,” she wanted to acclimate to the new sites, sounds and culture.
She wanted to meet new people and feel useful and productive. Anderson thought
of the saying “knowledge is power, but knowledge shared is multiplied,” and she
began considering all the skills, abilities and the talents she possessed. She
wanted to use them for a good cause and to empower people; so, she decided to
become a Red Cross volunteer.
“I saw an administrative opportunity, and Human Resources is
my background,” she said. “And I thought, yeah I can do that. I would enjoy
it.”
Anderson spends two days a week in the National Capital
Region’s office and reviews all online applications for volunteers. In her role
as a Volunteer Intake Manager, she is introduced to many like-minded people.
People who want to use their talents and skills for a good cause. Anderson
works to match their talents and skills with the right opportunities within the
organization.
“I come to work each
day and I know I am going to be laughing and enjoying the team spirit,” she
said.
Anderson shares that the highlight of her volunteer job is
working with her volunteer management team, which includes Erica Canfield, Joe
Cattaneo, Chetna Jha, Krutika Krishnan, Daniel Noh and Kemi Ogungbayo.
Share your time and talent by joining our team and becoming a Red Cross volunteer!
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