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Posted January 12, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
*Guest blog by Katie Kallio, communications advisor with the Canadian Red Cross * It was a cold winter day and I had just left the office and was on my way home when I got my first call about the earthquake in Haiti. In some disasters the sca...
Posted January 11, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
*Guest blog by Conrad Sauvé, Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Red Cross*We can all remember almost one year ago, image after image of destruction in Haiti following a devastating earthquake. For me, it was the footage of ...
Posted January 10, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
Some things in life are universal no matter who you are or where you live. And if you are a parent– losing a child is the most painful thing imaginable. On January 12, a massive earthquake in Haiti not only destroyed homes, and infrastructure it ...
Posted January 09, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
* Guest blog by Louise Taylor, Delegate for the Canadian Red Cross in Haiti A week before the anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, the Red Cross fulfilled its promise to provide shelter those left homeless on January 12th to some v...
Posted January 07, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
When the earthquake struck Haiti on January 12 of last year – the lives of millions of people in Haiti were forever changed. The news of the devastating quake spread quickly across Canada and in only a few hours Canadians generously opened the...
Posted January 06, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
*Guest blog by Jean-Louis Lukenson, Community Mobilization Officer for the Canadian Red Cross, Léogane, Haiti It seems like everything can be divided into ‘before the earthquake’ and ‘after the earthquake.’ Before the earthquake, I had been wor...
Posted January 05, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
*Written by Katie Robinson , communications coordinator with the Canadian Red Cross * The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our Sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.PAKISTAN: For the past four months, the Pakistan Red C...
Posted December 30, 2010 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
Ontario Director of Disaster Management, John Saunders (@CRCSaunders), has been in Haiti working with a team deployed with the first ever field Canadian Red Cross field hospital. On this, my last night working at the Canadian Red Cross Cholera Treatm...
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