Red Cross Launches Pillowcase Project

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The Red Cross is encouraging kids to pack up their pillowcases. 

In their new initiative to prepare students for disasters, the Red Cross is teaching students to create their own emergency supply kits by packing essential items in a pillowcase.

They came up with the Pillowcase Project after college students evacuated by Hurricane Katrina were carrying their belongings in pillowcases.

L.E. Berger Elementary School is the first school in the state to get the training.

“If homes are threatened by a wildfire, they do have to evacuate. And this way they have that comfort item, that bag of their belongings that they can grab and take with them when they have to go,” says Sonya Jensen of American Red Cross.

Red Cross leaders also taught students protocol for disasters. The program is sponsored by Disney.