The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. CHINA: The province of Sichuan in south-western China hit the headlines in April with a magnitude 7 earthquake, which killed nearly 200 peo...
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Happy World Red Cross Day! May 8 was chosen as World Red Cross Day to honour the birthday of Henry Dunant, the Swiss founder of the Red Cross. Today the Canadian Red Cross honours World Red Cross Day by celebrating 150 years of humanitarian a...
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. BANGLADESH: Bangladesh Red Crescent staff and volunteers have been supporting relief efforts at the Rana Plaza factory complex since its co...
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa has one of the highest rates of TB in the world; 389,000 people contract the disease each year. TB is treatable,...
Around the world, Red Crossers use many different means of transport and even technology to reach people to spread important prevention information. We love this photo of Zimbabwe Red Cross hygiene promotion volunteer Tizai Miidzo on his bicyc...
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Peter Maurer, was in Ottawa recently to visit with the Canadian Red Cross. During his visit he presented on today’s humanitarian challenges and discussed how we can best work together...
The University of Ottawa Red Cross Club is hosting "Even Wars Have Limits" International Humanitarian Law Film Festival on March 16, 2013. The film festival will showcase a documentary and a film that each demonstrate and raise awareness of IHL. The...
Two years have passed since the lives of hundreds of thousands of people were suddenly changed forever. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake followed by a tsunami and nuclear accident devastated Japan. In an instant, people lost everything - ...