This week, the Canadian Red Cross and the ICRC are hosting a workshop bringing together experts to identify recommendations to ensure the safety of health facilities in times of conflict. As such, we’ll be posting a blog post every day this week to h...
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The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. KENYA: The Kenya Red Cross Society was among the first to respond after an attack by an armed group at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairob...
6.8 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance; more than 2 million are refugees; 4.25 million are displaced in their own country. One of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies is unfolding in Syria, and aid agencies around the...
Photo credit: American Red Cross Flickr Volunteers from the American Red Cross have been hard at work responding to flooding that has affected more than 18,000 homes in Colorado and caused evacuations in New Mexico and Texas. While the area braces f...
As we prepare to mark World First Aid Day tomorrow, we wanted to share how important it is for everyone to have proper training. Take a look at our Red Cross friends from South Sudan in the photo above. Seventeen Red Cross volunteers participated...
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. MALI: Severe flooding is causing chaos across several countries in the Sahel region of Africa. To date, more than 200,000people have been a...
In response to the ongoing crisis in Syria, the Red Cross is in the midst of setting up a field hospital in Jordan to provide health care for Syrian refugees who have fled their home as a result of the conflict. To date, 1.9 million people have b...
We all have different stories of what drew us to work with the Red Cross. Chiran Livera, a Canadian aid worker currently working for the IFRC, was drawn to international aid work due to his love for travel and his desire to help those affected by d...