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Food Friday: Disaster Dining

[slideshow] As some of you know, we love to talk about food at the Canadian Red Cross and on this blog, so you can be sure we were in disaster-foodie heaven this week as we attended two cooking events in Ontario. The events were organized to ki...

#Wearit: Hitting the water with Amber Mac and her son

One drowning is too many. Already there have been too many reports of drownings across Canada. That is why the Canadian Red Cross has teamed up with tech guru Amber Mac, her son, and the Toronto Police to help spread the word that drowning is ...

Photo Tuesday: Images from Africa

Every Tuesday, we publish a photo to show Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know! Our Secretary General and CEO, Conrad Sauvé, is currently in Kenya to meet families affected by the dro...

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.SOUTH SUDAN: After some hard training, South Sudan Red Cross volunteers were ready for their first task: to monitor and assist people attending...

Why we’re forgoing Food Friday

For those of you who follow this blog, you know that on Fridays we like to post Food Friday blogs. It’s a chance for Red Crossers to have a little fun and talk about something many of us love – food. But given the mounting crisis in the Horn of Africa, our team decided it would be insensitive to post light stories about food when more than 11 million are at risk of starvation right now.

The Red Cross welcomes a new National Society!

On July 9, as South Sudan declared their independence from the north, a new National Society was born. Headquartered in Juba, the South Sudan Red Cross will be formed of staff and volunteers who previously worked for the Sudanese Red Crescent Soci...

Giving life, Haiti and small miracles

*Guest blog by Sophie Chavanel, Senior Communications Coordinator, Canadian Red Cross, Haiti "This week I really had a great experience. I helped a woman give birth in a Canadian Red Cross vehicle,” said Cyril Stein, coordinator of operations for ...

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. VIETNAM: The Red Cross has been piloting a hygiene education program that uses puppets, games, exercises and role-playing to encourage prim...

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