On the Ground in Thunder Bay

*photos by Johan Hallberg-Campbell The Canadian Red Cross continues to help families in Thunder Bay whose homes have been affected by massive flooding that occurred a week ago. To ensure the Red Cross has the most qualified disaster response volunteers on the ground to help with assessments and delivering aid, teams have been mobilized from [...]

Red Crossers in Action: Delegate Spotlight

Red Cross aid worker Eboukele Aka had his first overseas mission with the Red Cross two years ago in Afghanistan. A pharmacist by trade, Eboukele was based in Kandahar with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Working in a hospital for war-wounded, Eboukele was able to deliver medicines to those most urgently in [...]

Photo of the Day: Equipped to save lives

In this photo, medical and surgical staff taking part in delegate training this week are learning about the equipment available to them with the Canadian Red Cross Emergency Response Unit (ERU), also called a field hospital. With this equipment they have the capacity to put up a fully functioning operating room and can be ready to [...]

Photo of the Day: Red Cross friends from Colombia

Two emergency response experts from the Colombian Red Cross have joined the Canadian Red Cross for a week-long training to prepare for deployment with the Emergency Response Unit (ERU). From the Colombian Red Cross are Luisa Salamanca and Lina Villa Ruiz, who join a team of Canadians as they prepare to be deployed with the Red [...]

Are you prepared? Bif Naked and the Red Cross can help you #saveyourfanny

It’s Emergency Preparedness Week across Canada and you may have noticed we’ve been having a little fun in social media with a promotion on first-aid fanny packs, encouraging Canadians to ‘Save Your Fanny’. The fanny packs (regular $13.95), as well as other disaster preparedness kits are on sale with a 15% discount this week as [...]

Photo of the Day: Orange Cat and the Fanny Pack

Every day, we publish a photo to show the Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know! It’s Emergency Preparedness Week and we’re happy to see Orange Cat has its first aid fanny pack! Orange Cat lives with our Twitter Team friend [...]

Emergency Preparedness Week is Coming – Time to Save Your Fanny!

If you follow this blog often enough, you know that Red Crossers love all things having to do with first aid and disaster preparedness. Well, now we’ve found a way that we can all wear our love for safety – a fanny pack! That’s right! Fanny packs. We figured if The Bay can bring back [...]

Photo of the Day: Healthcare in Danger

This photo was taken earlier this week at the Healthcare in Danger Symposium in London. The meeting was the first of its kind to bring policymakers, academics, medics and civil society together to focus on the global problem of violent threats to health care. The symposium took the first steps towards agreeing on a response [...]

How to decorate your home – the Red Cross way

There’s no question that many of us who work at the Red Cross bring our work home with us – you never do know when a disaster will happen. But, since joining Pinterest a few weeks ago, I’ve realized that many people literally bring the Red Cross home – by way of pillows, shower curtains, [...]

Photo of the Day: Making an IMPACT

For today’s Photo of the Day, I’m sharing a slideshow to introduce you to the newest batch of Canadian Red Cross delegates. Delegates are highly trained professionals who are deployed internationally on behalf of the Canadian Red Cross. The training, called IMPACT,  short for International Mobilization and Preparation for ACTion, was held in Ottawa last [...]