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. ITALY: Following a second major earthquake in northern Italy yesterday, the Italian Red Cross, in close cooperation with civil protection authorities, has been hard at work undertaking relief and assistance work. In addition to providing essential [...]

Red Cross Round-up

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. BURKINA FASO: In Niaptana, Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe Red Cross Society has set up two women’s groups with community gardens where they grow vegetables that provide a lifeline for families struggling with severe hunger. CHAD: An [...]

Photo of the Day: Youth volunteers with the Georgian Red Cross

Youth volunteers, together with the Red Cross disaster management team, launched a small-scale mitigation project that aimed to plant 3,000 walnut trees in landslide-prone areas to protect communities nearby. A young Georgian Red Cross volunteer helps out during a project aimed at increasing the number of walnut trees planted in the Racha-Lechkhumi and Qvemo Svaneti [...]

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. LEBANON: In collaboration with the Belgian Red Cross, the Lebanese Red Cross youth department launched the “Dissemination of Humanitarian Norms” (DHN) project.   Directed at children and youth between the ages of six and 18, the DHN [...]

Photo of the Day: Happy World Red Cross Day!

Today is World Red Cross Day! To capture the work of Red Cross volunteers around the world, our post today features a picture that was submitted by the Ukrainian Red Cross to the Federation’s photo project which exhibits the experiences of Red Cross staff and volunteers. Photo caption: Ukrainian Red Cross Society youth show their [...]

Photo of the Day: The drive for universal bed-net coverage in Cross River State, Nigeria

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! A team of volunteers from the Nigerian Red Cross is going door-to-door in Ugep, Nigeria to distribute and hang mosquito nets up in every household. [...]

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. RWANDA: The Rwandan Red Cross Society is currently assisting displaced people in flood-affected areas of the country.  Recent heavy rain has affected water supplies and also damaged roads, schools, clinics and over 700 homes.  The Rwandan [...]

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. SOUTH AMERICA: Heavy rain fall over the past four months continues to cause severe flooding and landslides in several countries in South America, affecting Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. The severe weather in the region has [...]

Photo of the Day: Red Cross response in Mali

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! With help from UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) for the tents, volunteers from the Mali and Burkina Faso Red Cross are preparing the [...]

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. INDONESIA: The 8.7 earthquake that struck off the coast of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra on April 11 brought a   fear that the region might see a repeat of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which caused widespread [...]