Red Cross Stories (Page 26)

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. SENEGAL: According to the UN’s WFP, the effects of the 2012 drought on food security in the Sahel region are ongoing. The  Senegalese Red C...

Guest entry by James Sedgewick, disaster management associate, Canadian Red Cross in Nova Scotia This September marks a decade of emergency response for a special team of Canadian Red Cross volunteers in Nova Scotia. While Red Cross volunteers did...

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...

When the disaster struck Lac-Mégantic this summer, Mrs. Lavallée, a Lac-Mégantic resident, was visiting a relative. After hearing the sound of explosions, she and her sister-in-law left the house very quickly, without even taking time to put on her s...

Red Cross Red Crescent aid workers are busy setting up tents and unloading supplies in Azraq, Jordan that will serve as a field hospital for Syrian refugees. The hospital will consist of several tents and will include the necessary equipment to o...

The Canadian Red Cross has been working hard at identifying and addressing the needs of people affected by Alberta’s floods. One of the ways that we do this is by heading into communities and finding out what people need, first-hand. We rely h...