OUR RED CROSS LONDON RESCUE

Mirror wants readers for kindness crusade

that’s why this campaign is for us all too, whether you want to volunteer, or if you need help to pick up medicines or food, or you can support frontline staff or homeless people.

For more than 150 years, the British Red Cross has supported us through the most difficult times, including two world wars and the flu pandemic that followed the first.

That’s why we are so proud they are partnering with us here at the Daily Mirror in this campaign along with Daily Express and some of Britain’s biggest regional newspaper titles.

Together we’re on a mission to mobilise as many people as we can to join human kindness to the human corona crisis. Because we know that kindness, however big or small, will keep the country together.

We will work tirelessly with the Red Cross to make sure no one is left behind – whether they are an isolated elderly person, a struggling young mum, someone who sleeps on the street or a frontline hospital worker desperately needing support.

We all have skills to give and we will help to harness them. Whether it’s teaching an older person to talk to their grandchildren on Skype, calling lonely people or distributing food supplies – there’s a role for everyone.

A role so many of you are already playing in your communities all around the country, showing amazing acts of kindness, because you’re Mirror readers, and that’s the kind of people you are.

This is a fast-changing situation, with new challenges and disruptions for people every day – from selfisolating to schools closing.

In these pages we will also provide a panel of Red Cross experts who can answer people’s questions and give advice and reassurance.

From providing ideas for everyone from frazzled parents to those struggling quietly with anxiety at home, our campaign will leave no one behind.

There are already so many examples of people across the country going out of their way to cheer up others affected by the pandemic.

Five-year-old George Ellis, who is