Red Cross Stories
National Volunteer Week Profile: Nico Lacetera
- Only a few short years after arriving to Canada from Italy, Nicolas Lacetera was looking for an opportunity to give back to his community. In September 2014, he joined the network of Red Cross volunteers - becoming a valued addition to the Street Relief Team with the St. James Community Monday Breakfast Program, in downtown Toronto. Not only is he a welcome addition, but he has become someone whom the program relies and depends on for continued support.
National Volunteer Week Profile: Andrew MacPherson
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Between shifts as a trauma and emergency physician in Victoria, B.C. hospitals, helping injured skiers at Whistler-Blackcomb, and representing the Canadian Red Cross at medical conferences around the world, Andrew MacPherson has helped firmly establish the Canadian Red Cross as the number one provider of first aid and CPR training in Canada.
Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement launches Words Against Ebola
- One year after the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement launches an international awareness-raising campaign centered on using “the right words” to help end the disease.
The Red Cross responds to Cyclone Pam
- Red Cross teams are assessing the impact of Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam after it made landfall in Vanuatu and Tuvalu in the South Pacific Ocean on Friday night.
Care, dignity and hope for Ebola patients
- “I knew it was different from the colds I have had in the past,” said Mustapha Mambu, after he started feeling the symptoms of Ebola.
Community health worker contributes to change in community
- In Narukumo, located in Central Pokot in Kenya, lives 32-year-old Simon Mariach. Simon is one of the 26 community health workers collaborating with the Kenya Red Cross to implement change around the community’s perception of health with an aim to reduce or eliminate preventable diseases.
Learning new practices in Pakistan
- Every year, 200,000 newborns die in Pakistan in the first month of being born and less than half of women have a skilled health worker present while giving birth.
Haiti: Five Years On
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Five years after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, the Canadian Red Cross continues to help earthquake survivors recover from this disaster, rebuild communities and restore hope.
Haiti: Providing health care services in a rural community
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Pierre Louis Jeanrigaud is a nurse at a health centre in Seguin. This centre is one of three that has been expanded and rehabilitated by the Canadian Red Cross to provide health care to rural communities in Haiti.
Holiday Help in High River
- With the holiday season approaching, many High River families are still reeling financially as they try to put their lives back together after the Alberta floods of 2013.
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