Many people around the world today are marking World Health Day. World Health Day was celebrated on Sunday, April 7 to mark the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization, the UN’s health agency. Health services are one of the c...
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Around the world, Red Crossers use many different means of transport and even technology to reach people to spread important prevention information. We love this photo of Zimbabwe Red Cross hygiene promotion volunteer Tizai Miidzo on his bicyc...
The University of Ottawa Red Cross Club is hosting "Even Wars Have Limits" International Humanitarian Law Film Festival on March 16, 2013. The film festival will showcase a documentary and a film that each demonstrate and raise awareness of IHL. The...
Two years have passed since the lives of hundreds of thousands of people were suddenly changed forever. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and nuclear accident devastated Japan. In an instant, people lost everything - ...
On International Women’s Day, we thought it would be fitting to share a few examples of the significant contribution of women at the Canadian Red Cross. Looking back throughout our history, women have always played an important role. During World Wa...
Hossam Elsharkawi from the Canadian Red Cross International Operations team was in Newfoundland this past week to give presentations to local Red Cross volunteers, the Rotary Club and students and professors with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial U...
When Arta Rexhepi arrived in Canada from Kosovo with her family nearly 14 years ago, she was greeted and comforted by Canadian Red Cross volunteers. She was among a group of 5,000 refugees fleeing conflict who arrived in Nova Scotia and Ontario from ...
I have just returned from The Gambia where we visited four community gardens in North Bank and Lower River Region. These women-run community vegetable gardens, supported by the Red Cross and the Government of Canada, allow families affected by t...