Guest entry by James Sedgewick, disaster management associate, Canadian Red Cross in Nova Scotia This September marks a decade of emergency response for a special team of Canadian Red Cross volunteers in Nova Scotia. While Red Cross volunteers did...
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Guest post by Sandra Brunner, a member of the Canadian Red Cross Social Team and a Red Cross digital volunteer I recently had to update my CPR/AED skills to include infants, as I was teaching mom and baby Pilates classes. I thought it would also b...
We are always encouraging people to be Red Cross Ready for emergencies and disasters; in fact, we even have a Disaster Preparedness Calculator Facebook app for just that purpose! In Saskatchewan we work closely with Stantec and recently helped...
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. MALI: Severe flooding is causing chaos across several countries in the Sahel region of Africa. To date, more than 200,000people have been a...
Guest blog by James Park Things are getting a bit dicey for the Global Issues Symposium for Youth team as they partake in a team building exercise to balance five dice on popsicle sticks. Every year, the Canadian Red Cross in British Columbia hosts ...
Guest post by Chiran Livera, international Red Cross aid worker Namibia is a large country affected by a strange mix of disasters: both droughts and floods. Earlier this year, floods affected the north eastern part of the country, where it borders...
if you ever see an oversized lifejacket walking around your community, you'll know Buckles is in town! Buckles is the Canadian Red Cross mascot for water safety. He gets around the country quite a bit too. He's been to Timmins, ON; last summer...
Guest post by Tahina Rabezanahary, Program Manager for Africa, Canadian Red Cross In recent months, I travelled to Mali, Liberia and Kenya to visit Canadian Red Cross Maternal, Newborn and Child health projects. Most of my visits consisted of meet...