Floods (Page 20)

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. Mali: After the outbreak of the conflict in northern Mali, thousands of people were displaced within the country while others sought re...

Springtime is almost here and that means we may experience flooding in some regions. We wanted to share this story from a family in British Columbia who experienced a devastating flood first hand and how they recovered. If it wasn’t for Si...

Today’s photo shows how the Malagasy Red Cross Society is responding to tropical cyclone Haruna, which slammed into the southwest coast of Madagascar on February 22. The storm brought heavy rains and winds of over 170 kilometers per hour and cras...

Pictured above, two Canadian delegates spread their love in Mozambique. Patrick Raymond and Emmanuel Ngamga were both deployed to Mozambique on February 11 as Community Health Managers with the Canadian Red Cross Emergency Response Unit (ERU), to...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. MOZAMBIQUE: Thanks to early warning systems in Mozambique, tens of thousands of families survived deadly flooding. Improved climate science...

Today's photo of the day shows the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Evan. Evan made landfall in Samoa on December 13 as a category 3 tropical storm. Apia, which is the capital of Samoa, suffered from extensive flooding as well as widespread structural d...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. NIGERIA: In Late August, Nigeria experienced the worst flooding in 40 years. At the height of the crisis, rising waters drove more than 2 m...