Prince Edward Island News and Stories
Violence in disasters
- Violence during and after disasters not only causes injury, trauma and death, but also undermines hope, trust and self-worth in individuals and communities. The Canadian Red Cross is working to change this. Predictable, Preventable, a report by...
Photo of the Day: Volunteer award
- Every day, 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! Congratulations go out to Canadian Red Cross volunteer Marvin MacLeod who received a Distinguished Service A...
Photo of the Day: Haiti slideshow
- *Guest entry by Michael Tomascik, Public Affairs team, Ottawa Two years ago Haiti was left devastated after by 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Over the past two years the Canadian Red Cross, thanks to the generosity of Canadians, has been working to hel...
Photo of the Day: Holiday greetings from PEI
- Every day, 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! The small but mighty Canadian Red Cross team in Prince Edward Island is spreading some holiday cheer this se...
Helping Afghan women, one loonie at a time
- Students from five schools across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island have been challenging each other to spend only one loonie a day, for 10 straight days as part of the Canadian Red Cross Dollar a Day campaign. That means no movies, no fast fo...
Emergency Response Unit arrives
- On Friday, the Canadian Red Cross deployed its new field hospital to Haiti. It is the first time that a Red Cross hospital has been deployed from anywhere in the Americas. A team of experts from across Canada, including physicians, nurses and logisti...
The first-ever Canadian Red Cross field hospital
- The new Canadian Red Cross field hospital was created as part of the First Responder Initiative, a partnership with the Government of Canada. The First Responder Initiative includes two health emergency response units: a rapid deployment field hospit...
A shout-out to some amazing volunteers
- We’d like to congratulate these outstanding volunteers, Judith Irving and Amanda Titus in Saint John, New Brunswick for their recent awards recognizing the humanitarian work they do. Judith Irving received the Humanitarian Award for her work with ...
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