Four Generations of the Jeong Family Provide Immense Support to the American Red Cross
  

Long-time Red Cross volunteer Audrey Jeong makes it her mission to make the Red Cross her number one charitable priority, and ensures that her children and grandchildren do the same. The Jeong family is involved with the Red Cross across four generations.

Jeong credits her mother for initially inspiring her to support Red Cross programs in their Chinatown neighborhood, and more broadly, to all of San Francisco and the world beyond. Jeong immediately understood the importance of supporting not only her local community but also vulnerable people in countries around the world.

Jeong encouraged her children to become involved with the Red Cross. Her oldest son Gordon volunteered to pick up donated cookies from a local bakery and deliver them to the Red Cross for distribution to victims of local fires who were left tempo­rarily homeless. Jeong’s other children Angela and Gerald have also been generous supporters of the Red Cross since childhood.

“I always told my children and grandchildren to make the Red Cross charity number one in their lives,” Jeong said.

Jeong and her husband George are still always among the first to donate to the Red Cross when a disaster strikes in San Francisco’s Chinatown, or when funds are needed for the chapter’s youth programs. Jeong also encouraged her grandchildren to hold fundraisers through their local Red Cross Youth Clubs by offering to match the funds each one of them raised.

Now, Jeong’s granddaughters Taylor and Madison are carrying on the family tradition by becoming involved with the Red Cross Clubs at their respective schools. Taylor recently graduated high-school and is in her first year at University of California, San Diego. Taylor was involved with the Red Cross Club at Washington High School in Fre­mont, and plans to continue her work with the club at UC San Diego.

“I like volunteering with the Red Cross, because I get a chance to understand where other people in my community come from,” Taylor said of her volunteering experience. “It is very eye-opening and rewarding.”

Taylor’s younger sister Madison has already become involved with the Red Cross Club at Washington High School, even as a freshman. Madison is excited to follow in the footsteps of her family members and give back to her local community by supporting the Red Cross in any way she can.

Jeong and her family understand the importance of supporting organizations like the Red Cross in order to help local communities in times of crisis as well as countries abroad.