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Dispatch from HQ: Superstorm Sandy update

A massive response operation to help those affected by Superstorm Sandy is underway at the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington D.C. Check out this video update from Anne Marie Borrego from the media relations team.

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. MYANMAR: Staff and volunteers from the Myanmar Red Cross Society have been working with communities affected by the inter-communal violence...

New London sanitation exhibit to get people talking about poo

Admit it—talk around the dinner table at your house most likely never turns to what happens in the privacy of the washroom. The folks at the London School of Hygiene @ Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are trying to change that with a new exhibition. It’s ...

Social Media Team at the Red Cross field hospital: #CRCeru

[slideshow] This week Red Cross aid workers from across the country are meeting in Ontario for an intensive training exercise. Each of the 35 aid workers  - delegates as they are known in the Red Cross movement - are part of a larger roster of spe...

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. THAILAND: Floods are not unique for Thailand. But in 2011, the floods were considered some of the worst in the country’s history. One year ...

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. BANGLADESH: More than 1 million people have been affected by the floods that followed torrential monsoon rains in late June. They have lost...

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. NIGER: For many families in Niger, the gap between harvests has become stretched out by the drought that has been experienced all over the ...

Photo of the Day: The importance of social work in rehabilitating Syrian refugees

In the wake of violence in Syria, thousands of Syrian families have fled to neighbouring countries. Social workers with the Jordan National Red Crescent Society are working in partnership with the French Red Cross and Unicef to provide social assista...

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