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Volunteer Profile: Brenda Preston
- This week’s feature Canadian Red Cross volunteer in Manitoba is Brenda Preston. Including her time as both a first aid instructor, a personal disaster assistance team supervisor for the Western Manitoba region, an emergency response team responder and facilitator, Brenda has been volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross for 15 years.
Volunteer Profile: John Clemenson
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This week’s feature volunteer is John Clemenson, who has been with the Canadian Red Cross for 10 years.
What does it take to be ready for a tornado?
- In Canada, tornadoes can happen in southern Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, the interior of British Columbia and western New Brunswick.
So, what should you do to be ready for a tornado?
Pauingassi First Nation evacuees returning home Wednesday; Red Cross evacuees from Marcel Colomb moving to Thompson
- The more than 450 evacuees from Pauingassi First Nation who have been out of their community for more than a month due to wildfires will be returning home starting Wednesday.
Specialized team helps fly-in community evacuate and return home
- While Red Cross volunteers are known for their resourcefulness and dedication, there’s one team that really goes a step above and beyond: the Supporting Evacuation and Repatriation Team (SERT) team.
RED CROSS SUPPORTS LITTLE GRAND RAPIDS RETURN HOME
- The Canadian Red Cross is starting the process of returning evacuees from Little Grand Rapids back to their community as of Saturday, June 23. The residents of this northern fly-in community have been away from their home since May 20.
How Red Cross works with Indigenous communities in emergencies and beyond
- To mark National Indigenous Peoples Day, we wanted to share some of the ways Red Cross is working in partnership with Indigenous communities across the country, in response to disasters as well as through programs to promote preparedness, safety, and wellbeing.
Former refugee now provides refuge
- Omar Abdullahi, a social worker who lives in Winnipeg, volunteers with the safety and wellbeing team of the Canadian Red Cross. He is working with evacuees from the northern Manitoba wildfires.
Before coming to Canada, Omar and his family were refugees from the Somalian civil war. When he was about 10 years old, his family, including his six sisters and two brothers, fled Mogadishu for the Kenyan border.
How volunteers support the emotional wellbeing of Manitobans displaced by wildfires
- At first glance, it’s hard to understand what Pat Alphonse Cox does for the Canadian Red Cross. Volunteering at the Winnipeg reception centre for wildfire evacuees, Pat chats for a few minutes with a large, boisterous family from Pauingassi First Nation; corrals a small, energetic child closer to her mom; and then sits quietly with a slouching teenager. It all seems a little random, but on closer examination, Pat’s role becomes clear and her work crucial. Pat is a Safety and Wellbeing responder with the Canadian Red Cross.
Red Cross confirms entire community of Sapotaweyak now back home
- As of yesterday, the final evacuees from Sapotaweyak Cree Nation have returned home, more than two weeks after having to evacuate due to wildfires.
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