International (Page 94)

Next to radio, SMS is one of the best ways to reach people in Haiti. So when it became clear that Tropical Storm Isaac was heading toward the small Caribbean island nation this past weekend, the Red Cross began sending out text messages. Haiti is th...

This blog was written by Kim Stephens and originally posted on idisaster 2.0 blog Although Hurricane Isaac (or #Isaac if you are on Twitter) has still yet to decide where it wants to make landfall in the United States, it has already produced som...

[caption id="attachment_9226" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Residents of Cite Soleil, Haiti, wade through flood waters on Route Neuf from Tropical Storm Isaac, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick Farrell) Read more. From t...

Disaster response requires a lot of “behind the scenes” work to organize emergency relief supplies in all of the Red Cross warehouses. The warehouse in Manila contains enough supplies to provide for 15,000 families or approximately 75,000 peop...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. BURKINA FASO: The Belgian Red Cross and Burkinabe Red Cross are working on a nutrition program in Sebba, Yagha province.  The Sebba nutriti...

Staff and volunteers of the Spanish Red Cross have been working to help residents who were affected by the forest fires that occured last week on Spain’s Canary Island of La Gomera. Almost a quarter of the population of the island has had to flee t...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.BANGLADESH: Flash floods and landslides have claimed more than 130 lives and directly affected up to a million families across Bangladesh. Volu...

*Guest blog by Jamie-Leigh Cuthbertson, Ontario Zone Public Affairs Have you ever seen an amphibious Red Cross vehicle? Red Cross Societies in the Philippines and China are providing emergency relief to flood affected communities after three ty...