According to a new study by the American Red Cross, more Americans are choosing mobile apps to help them in times of emergencies. The Red Cross has introduced apps for shelter locations, first aid tips and instruction and hurricane preparedness, ...
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The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. CHINA: Red Cross Society of China emergency teams are hard at work to bring help to survivors of a series of earthquakes that have struck a...
Disaster response requires a lot of “behind the scenes” work to organize emergency relief supplies in all of the Red Cross warehouses. The warehouse in Manila contains enough supplies to provide for 15,000 families or approximately 75,000 peop...
Staff and volunteers of the Spanish Red Cross have been working to help residents who were affected by the forest fires that occured last week on Spain’s Canary Island of La Gomera. Almost a quarter of the population of the island has had to flee t...
Following devastating floods that submerged large areas of the Philippine capital Manila, the Canadian Red Cross is accepting donations to help the Philippine Red Cross provide emergency relief to affected communities. At least 60 percent of M...
Humanitarian relief efforts continue in Syria. In this photo, Syrian Arab Red Crescent workers help register displaced people in Aleppo. As the violence continues to escalate and livelihoods are disrupted, many families have been forced to flee their...
This photo was recently posted on the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Facebook page. Around the world, Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers travel far and wide to help those in need. Seen here, a volunteer in Vietnam visits...
South Sudan became an independent country one year ago today. The ICRC has been working with the newly created South Sudan Red Cross to deliver health care along the border in very challenging conditions that include violence and lack of resource...