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Posted July 17, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. SYRIA: The Syrian Arab Red Crescent is working with the Danish Red Cross to offer psychosocial support to 60 families in a communal shelter...
Posted July 10, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
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...
Posted July 09, 2013 by Global Administrator
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...
Posted July 03, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. NIGERIA: Last August, heavy rains began in Nigeria, leading to the worst flooding the country had experienced in 40 years. Hundreds of thou...
Posted June 20, 2013 by Global Administrator
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 ...
Posted June 19, 2013 by Global Administrator
A community is addressing the issue of lack of recreational space for children by building a social hub for youth in Nuuk, Greenland's capital. Red Cross Greenland's youth arm is helping contribute to the project by recruiting young volunteers to h...
Posted June 19, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. SENEGAL: As in other countries across the Sahel, the lack of rainfall during 2011 left parts of Senegal facing food insecurity. This was pa...
Posted June 17, 2013 by Global Administrator
In the wake of destruction caused by the five-day passage of Typhoon Bopha, locally known as Pablo, through the southern Philippines in December 2012, more than 1,100 lives were lost, 233,000 houses damaged or destroyed and 6.3 million people af...
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