The
Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
ISRAEL: The Magen David Adom (MDA) was well prepared for the
storm which battered Israel. The
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organization was able to call on the support of thousands of volunteers to help in the response, working day and night for five days, providing first aid and medical assistance, evacuating people who were stranded on the roads or in their own house, setting up shelters and distributing relief items such as blankets, mattresses, tarpaulins and kitchen sets.
NIGER: People fleeing the
conflict in north-east Nigeria continue to arrive in the Diffa area, in south-easternmost Niger, where the ICRC and the Red Cross Society of Niger are working to help thousands of people. Last week, the Niger Red Cross and the ICRC distributed two-month food rations to some 7,500 people (displaced persons, refugees and returnees) in the districts of Diffa, Toumour, Nguelkolo and Chetimari.
GLOSSARY:
ICRC =
International Committee of the Red Cross