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Photo of the Day: Northern Alberta wildfires response

[slideshow] On May 15, 2011, more than 15,000 people were evacuated from Slave Lake and the surrounding communities due to massive wildfires that swept across the region—the largest disaster in Alberta’s history. The Canadian Red Cross response wa...

Value of volunteers: Northern Alberta wildfires response

When Red Cross was alerted that help was needed with the northern Alberta wildfires, it responded by first calling in local teams. As the magnitude of the disaster became apparent, Red Cross quickly pulled in people from its vast resource of volu...

Emergency Preparedness Week: Tune-in to the next coolest emergency accessory

There has been a lot of buzz this past week about fanny packs being the hottest emergency preparedness accessory. While no one can deny that fanny packs are very hip, there is another emergency accessory that’s also making some noise: Radios.  “Ra...

Photo of the Day: Youth volunteers with the Georgian Red Cross

Youth volunteers, together with the Red Cross disaster management team, launched a small-scale mitigation project that aimed to plant 3,000 walnut trees in landslide-prone areas to protect communities nearby. A young Georgian Red Cross volunte...

Are you prepared? Bif Naked and the Red Cross can help you #saveyourfanny

It’s Emergency Preparedness Week across Canada and you may have noticed we’ve been having a little fun in social media with a promotion on first-aid fanny packs, encouraging Canadians to ‘Save Your Fanny’. The fanny packs (regular $13.95), as ...

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.LEBANON: In collaboration with the Belgian Red Cross, the Lebanese Red Cross youth department launched the “Dissemination of Humanitarian Norms...

Photo of the Day: Fergie Jenkins Foundation helping to strike out violence and abuse

Last weekend, the Fergie Jenkins Foundation showed its support for the Canadian Red Cross RespectED: Violence and Abuse prevention program while at the Sportscard @ Memorabilia Expo in Toronto.  The foundation raised $7,500 for the program by selli...

Photo of the Day: Happy World Red Cross Day!

Today is World Red Cross Day! To capture the work of Red Cross volunteers around the world, our post today features a picture that was submitted by the Ukrainian Red Cross to the Federation’s photo project which exhibits the experiences of Red Cross ...

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