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[slideshow] This week Red Cross aid workers from across the country are meeting in Ontario for an intensive training exercise. Each of the 35 aid workers  - delegates as they are known in the Red Cross movement - are part of a larger roster of spe...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. THAILAND: Floods are not unique for Thailand. But in 2011, the floods were considered some of the worst in the country’s history. One year ...

In the wake of violence in Syria, thousands of Syrian families have fled to neighbouring countries. Social workers with the Jordan National Red Crescent Society are working in partnership with the French Red Cross and Unicef to provide social assista...

Earlier this week, Red Crossers gathered at the Peace Plaza at Rotary Park in Saskatoon for a ceremony to unveil a brick in recognition of the 1917 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Red Cross. This brick was generously sponsored by SaskEnergy, a long ...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. CHINA: Red Cross Society of China emergency teams are hard at work to bring help to survivors of a series of earthquakes that have struck a...

Disaster response requires a lot of “behind the scenes” work to organize emergency relief supplies in all of the Red Cross warehouses. The warehouse in Manila contains enough supplies to provide for 15,000 families or approximately 75,000 peop...

Staff and volunteers of the Spanish Red Cross have been working to help residents who were affected by the forest fires that occured last week on Spain’s Canary Island of La Gomera. Almost a quarter of the population of the island has had to flee t...

The Iran Red Crescent Society (IRCS) is on the ground providing life-saving aid to help thousands affected by two strong earthquakes which struck northwestern Iran on Saturday. Reports indicate that approximately 300 people have been killed, m...