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The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.

It’s 4 a.m. and I’m sleepy, groggy and sweating. It’s the third day in a row I have been up at this time to accompany Guyana Red Cross staff and volunteers to Jacklow, an isolated riverine community in Guyana. The community has been supported by the Guyana Red Cross to explore the vulnerabilities and capacities in their community.

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.

A unique drama club has formed in Juba. A group of five Red Cross friends travel the city and perform open street shows to help spread messages on cholera prevention.

Mamadou Saidon Bah wakes up each morning not knowing if he will spend his day grading student assignments and preparing lectures for his work as a teacher, or if he will instead lead a group of young volunteers from the local Red Cross branch on a mission to collect the body of yet another victim of the growing Ebola epidemic.

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.

As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, so does the need for communities and individuals to be prepared. That's why Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from around the world have launched the Disaster Resilience Journal project, sharing photos and stories of communities preparing for disasters with resilience in a changing world.