Cape Cod Healthcare Community Benefits recently awarded the Cape and Islands chapter of the American Red Cross a $7,694 grant towards the development of its training initiative for Brazilians in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators.

This latest grant will help the chapter recruit and train five Brazilian and bilingual instructors and subsequently to train 150 Brazilians who are interested in receiving the training.

The chapter also received an initial donation of in-kind services from Cape Cod Healthcare Community Benefits to translate all course and instruction materials into Portuguese.

More information about the program is available by calling 508-775-1540 or visiting capecodandislandsredcross.org.