Posted January 24, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
Guest entry by Melanie MacDonald, Communications Coordinator, Atlantic Canada Lauren Chartrand has proved that even at the tender age of 14, it’s possible to make a difference in your community. Lauren joined the Canadian Red Cross’ Beyond the Hur...
Posted January 23, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. INDONESIA: Over 230 Indonesian Red Cross staff and volunteers quickly responded to flooding in Jakarta after two days of torrential rain po...
Posted January 22, 2013 by Global Administrator
The Red Cross is distributing over 8,000 litres of drinking water every day to camps in Rakhine State, Myanmar. The camps are housing thousands of families displaced by inter-communal violence. Red Cross teams have also constructed wells and toilets ...
Posted January 21, 2013 by Global Administrator
Today’s photo of the day is taken from the American Red Cross. Pictured above is James Medina, who was attending school in Port-au-Prince, when the earthquake in Haiti occurred three years ago. Medina was trapped under the rubble for an entire...
Posted January 18, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
Guest entry by James Park, Assistant Communications Coordinator, BC Rebecca Bollwitt, also known by her online moniker, Miss 604, recently visited the Canadian Red Cross office in Burnaby to deliver a much appreciated talk about social media. A...
Posted January 18, 2013 by Global Administrator
I Know Where I’m Going is a moving short film featuring a staff member from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Hussein Saleh, who is from Yemen, a country affected by conflict. In the 10-minute document...
Posted January 16, 2013 by Global Administrator
The Canadian Red Cross celebrates the opening of the first Red Cross office in a First Nation community in Ontario. The first programs to operate from the satellite office will be education around disaster management and violence and abuse prevention...
Posted January 16, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. MIDDLE EAST: Several countries in the Middle East continue to experience severe winter weather that has caused casualties across the region...
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