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Photo of the Day: Second Harvest Turkey Drive

Each year, Second Harvest hosts a Turkey Drive at Loblaws locations in Toronto. Volunteers ask customers to purchase and donate a frozen turkey on the spot. Second Harvest is the largest food rescue program in Canada. They help feed hungry people b...

Photo of the Day: Red Cross Youth around the globe

Today’s photo comes from the Global Youth Conference that took place this past week in Vienna, Austria. The conference aimed to develop an effective International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent  youth strategy. The purpose of the strategy i...

Photo of the Day: Red Crossers get into the holiday spirit

The staff at the Cornwall branch office of the Canadian Red Cross are really getting into the holiday spirit this year by decorating a tree in their office with gifts being donated to Sparky's Toy Drive .The Sparky Toy Drive is held by the Cornwall F...

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. TUNISIA: The Tunisian Red Crescent celebrated International Volunteer Day with the theme of promoting safer and easier volunteering in coor...

Avoid dangers this holiday season

While the holidays can be a wonderful time spent with friends and family, there are also a number of accidents associated with the holidays. According to medical statistics, people have been injured watering Christmas trees without unplugging the...

Photo of the Day: A new home in Haiti

 Today’s photo of the day comes from Susan Johnson, Director General for International Operations  at the Canadian Red Cross. Susan is currently in Haiti visiting Canadian Red Cross programs along with Western Canada colleagues Sue Phillips and C...

Canadian Red Cross holiday gift guide

The Canadian Red Cross has some great gift ideas to help you with your holiday shopping this season: The gift that keeps on giving: Nothing says “best gift ever” like the ability to save lives like a real-life superhero! Purchase a first aid or CP...

Happy International Volunteer Day from the Canadian Red Cross!

[slideshow] In honour of International Volunteer Day, we’re sending out high fives and huge thanks to all of the thousands of volunteers who are the face of Red Cross in communities across Canada every single day. Our volunteers are on the ground pr...

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