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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...

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...

[slideshow] As part of the Canadian Red Cross' 3 year Building Resilience Project that focuses on sustainable agriculture, nutrition, risk mitigation, water and sanitation and vocational training a group of men and women from South Sudan were traine...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. CHINA: The Red Cross Society of China is responding to the needs of thousands of people affected by the 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struc...

In early July, Conrad Sauvé, Secretary General and CEO of the Canadian Red Cross and Hossam Elsharkawi, Director of Emergencies and Recovery, International Operations at the Canadian Red Cross, visited refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon where th...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. CROATIA: The flood-wave on the Danube River – which caused wreaked havoc across Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary – has passed through...

This past week, Conrad Sauvé, the Secretary General and CEO of the Canadian Red Cross, visited refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon where thousands of people are currently living after fleeing conflict in Syria. He met families who have lost their...

Earlier this year, 15-year-old Mohammad was reunited with his family with help from the ICRC’s Restoring Family Links program after being separated from them for seven months. Mohammad, originally from the southern Syrian city of Daraa, was visiting ...