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Helping those affected by the earthquake in Turkey

[slideshow] The Turkish Red Crescent responded immediately to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey earlier this week. Throughout the region they have mobilized teams of disaster responders and supplies including over 2,000 tents, 7,500 ...

Dispatches from China: Hello from Beijing

Guest blog by Kevin Paes, Water Safety Program Advisor for the Canadian Red Cross in Western CanadaBeginning October 20th, four Red Crossers touched down in China as part of a technical exchange between the Canadian Red Cross and the Chinese Red Cros...

The Red Cross Round-up

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.HAITI: An independent evaluation into the IFRC beneficiary communications program in Haiti has shown just how critical information is to people...

Let's talk about food: Blog Action Day 2011

Today is Blog Action Day 2011, a day when bloggers around the world are encouraged to blog about one particular theme. This year’s theme is ‘food.’ For many reasons, this is a topic dear to our Red Cross heart and so we wanted to participate. 

Meet the Canadian Red Cross Twitter Team

If you are on Twitter, then chances are you have recently seen messages about the need for aid in Africa coming from members of the new Canadian Red Cross Twitter Team. The Twitter Team is made up of a group of Twitter users who, over the last...

Last week for matching donations to Horn of Africa

Earlier this summer, many of us first heard news of a severe drought in the Horn of Africa that led to food shortages. With millions  at risk of malnutrition and starvation (many of them children), the United Nations declared the crisis in Somalia a ...

Mission: Help for the Horn of Africa

Breanne England, a staff member of the Canadian Red Cross in Ottawa, has spent much of the summer managing the response to the Horn of Africa drought. Now, she’s in the region to see firsthand the extent of this humanitarian crisis and how the Red Cr...

Japan - Select a drink and donate

*We heard about this on the Wall Street Journal and Japan Trends blogs, and it was too good not to share. Here you go!I have heard many stories from friends who were amazed by the amount of vending machines they saw while travelling in Japan. The cou...

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