Posted January 18, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
*Guest blog by Bonnie Kearns, Canadian Red Cross delegate and volunteer from Sarnia OntarioI’m home, it’s snowing and I’m sitting by a fire very relaxed. But as I sit here my mind wanders to Haiti. I had bought a new pair of rubber boots from Cana...
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 11, 2011 by Global Administrator
Our very own Red Crosser, Jean-Pierre Taschereau (most of us know him as JP) is one of the aid workers featured in a documentary that is scheduled to premiere in Ontario on TVO tonight. The documentary, Inside Disaster Haiti, follows the work ...
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...
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