March is Red Cross Month, a time where the American Red Cross invites everyone, with all their acts and contributions, to be a hero of society. A month of acknowledgement started more than 75 years ago when President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared this month as the Month of the Red Cross as a means of raising the organization's awareness of its humanitarian mission.

People throughout the country are invited to become a volunteer, practice lifesaving skills, donate blood, or begin basic and ready their homes and families with an emergency kit to aid those you love in an unavoidable situation.

It's important to think, as responsible adults, you realize what you are doing in an emergency. It's reassuring that you are able to act in the case of an emergency and to keep yourself and your family secure, safe and prepared for a crisis.

This begins with simple measures for you to assess your overall level of readiness, and that it goes on to organize the necessary things in your home to protect you.

Evaluate Your Preparedness

If you prepare for it, you will be much more secure, not just in the midst of disaster or crisis, but also when things are right in daily life. We all should be prepared for anything, and although it doesn't mean you must live in terror or anticipate the worst thing, this just means that you have to be ready for anything.

You just have to determine first how inexperienced you are to determine how much you are prepared and armed with the survival equipment that you need.If you would like to overcome these problems and stock the survival package with the right things, you have to recognize limitations and weakness. An excellent place to begin with is an evaluation, that will help you to rather simply detect how much you know and how ready you are.

Build a Basic Supply Kit

It is also necessary to maintain the kit, inspect it regularly and keep it secure and convenient while creating the perfect survival kit. It is clever to also have a survival kit in your home, your workplace and your vehicle.

The American Red Cross offers a very detailed list of items to guide you through the process. While having to tackle the possible likelihood of a crisis, a sufficient range of survival items must also be gathered, organized and handled.

The Homeland Security Department advises that you ensure that all canned and non-perishable food is kept cool and sealed in tightly sealed packaging as well as that expired products are replaced as necessary and that your kit updates every year as your family needs change.

Consider a three-day or two-week stock of water and food supplies at home, spare batteries, a first-aid kit, essential medications, cell phone chargers, extra money and lamps. The less common things which you might miss include written phone numbers, battery operated radios, maps of your community, warm blankets and extra house keys, etc.

Hope for the Best, But Prepare for the Worst

Note that preparation for a calamity or an emergency is not a sign of vulnerability, or of an alarmist. We are all holding out hope it will never happen, and your worst outcome has to be that it requires you most time to stash a survival kit that you may not use.

Bear in mind, this emergency kit is a means for your family to plan for the worst circumstance and you'll never have to dig through the provisions. But in the likelihood that some kind of tragedy happens, you are at least ready.

The American Red Cross urges that you understand how local governments inform you of the steps to be taken in the event of a crisis, how to respond to various kinds of climate and security warnings, and how to defend yourself during a crisis.