How many times did you touch someone today: a family member, a friend, a colleague, the person beside you on the bus? How many times did you rub your eyes, touch your lips, scratch your nose? A world without touch is strange thing, and a humanitarian mission where you’re not allowed to touch other people is both physically and mentally challenging.
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The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
Canadian Red Crosser Chiran Livera who was recently in South Sudan to aid in the cholera outbreak in South Sudan shares the story of a small two-year-old boy who got sick and started showing all the common signs of cholera – dehydration, vomiting and muscle cramps. He was brought to the to the Red Cross community health tent that has been specifically set-up to detect and assist with early intervention of cholera.
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
By 2015, roughly 375 million people will be affected by climate-related disasters every year, 100 million more than were directly impacted last year. And this does not count those affected by non-climate-related disasters such as earthquakes, conflicts and man-made disasters which are expected to affect many millions more.
These disasters often lead to separation of loved ones, leaving vulnerable people with no way to get in contact with those they have lost.
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
While working abroad with the Guyana government, Heather Fehr came across the work of the Guyana Red Cross as she was working on community development projects with the isolated Amerindian populations in the Amazon rainforest.
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.