The Syrian Arab Red Crescent Mobile Health Unit is always welcomed in Ghuzlaniyah, a village situated 20 kilometres east of Damascus, where men, women and children flock to the vehicle to form lines to wait for medical consultations.
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The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
For the past month, the Homs branch of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent with support from the IFRC has been delivering food aid and helping rebuild destroyed communities in Syria that had been besieged by conflict.
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
Pictured above, a 5-year old boy from Syria, recently displaced, gets his polio vaccination from Dr. Tarek of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent health department.
We wanted to share this video footage of the recent visit to Syria by Canadian Red Cross Secretary General and CEO, Conrad Sauvé, and Director of Emergencies and Recovery for International Operations, Hossam Elsharkawi. The Canadian Red Cross has been providing support to its sister society, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), as it continues to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to people affected by the on-going conflict.
Conrad Sauvé, Canadian Red Cross Secretary General and CEO, and Hossam Elsharkawi, Director of Emergencies and Recovery for International Operations, were in Syria last week to learn, first-hand, about the work of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) in that country.