Your gift at work

Every contribution to the American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania helps us get closer to fulfilling our life-saving mission. Your support means that the Red Cross can continue its great tradition of people helping people, whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Below is just one example of how your contributions make all the difference.

Red Cross House is Refuge for Maxwells after Third Darby Flood

Seventeen-year-old Levik Maxwell Jr. was dressed in a white tuxedo for his junior prom when a rising creek flooded his Darby home. Mother Roshanda sent him safely to the prom, but she would have to miss this important event in her son’s life and all the precious memories that went with it. The April 2005 Darby Creek flood marked the third time in the past year that floodwaters have driven the family from their quiet suburban home where Roshanda and Levik Maxwell Sr. moved in 1999 so their children would have “a safer place to grow up.” The Maxwells traded the sounds of gunshots outside their West Philadelphia home for a place to throw a football, fish, and play outside without worrying about drug dealers. Driven out by three floods, from the home they “can’t afford to lose,” the Maxwells went to the Red Cross House. “Red Cross made us comfortable for the weekend we were flooded out of our home. We called it our little vacation.” With help from Red Cross, the Maxwells are back home living their dream, planting a garden and holding their famous neighborhood barbeques.