Red Cross Stories (Page 30)

Guest post by Lindsay Vogan, Communications volunteer deployed in Alberta High River is one of the hardest hit by the Alberta floods. With so many evacuated, where do all of displaced residents go? Some are lucky enough to have friends and family ...

Guest post by Vicki Eichstaedt, Communications Volunteer on deployment in Alberta from American Red Cross It was eerily quiet in High River on Sunday. No people, no cars, no movement. I joined a group of Red Cross and other community volunteers...

The town of High River has been the focus of much of the attention since devastating flooding prompted a state of local emergency and the evacuation of its residents. This weekend, residents from one of the eight zones were allowed to return t...

Earlier this year, 15-year-old Mohammad was reunited with his family with help from the ICRC’s Restoring Family Links program after being separated from them for seven months. Mohammad, originally from the southern Syrian city of Daraa, was visiting ...

A community is addressing the issue of lack of recreational space for children by building a social hub for youth in Nuuk, Greenland's capital. Red Cross Greenland's youth arm is helping contribute to the project by recruiting young volunteers to h...

On my last visit to the Red Cross field hospital training camp I was in awe of the amount of work and training that is involved. The team of highly skilled doctors, nurses, anesthetists, midwives, psycho-social support workers, technicians, logisti...