Category: Lead
California wildfires: Red Cross provides support to evacuees
The American Red Cross is providing shelter and emotional support for people evacuated due to wildfires in California.
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Philippine Red Cross rallies as typhoon barrels across Luzon
Their motto is ‘Always ready. Always there. Always first.’ And that is what the Philippine Red Cross staff and volunteers were when typhoon Rosita – internationally known as Yutu – threatened their islands at the end of October.
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Governments and aid groups must do more to stop millions being “left behind”.
Millions of people living in crisis may not be receiving the humanitarian assistance they...
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In Pictures: Lombok earthquake runs the risk of becoming a silent disaster, 3 months on
On 5 November it will be 3 months since a destructive and shallow earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude and multiple aftershocks struck the island of Lombok, Indonesia. The epicentre was located inland, near Loloan Village in North Lombok Regency.
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Bangladesh: Giving communities the freedom of choice via cash grants
Meat is a luxury for people who have fled violence in Rakhine state and who are now living in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Many of them live on a diet of rice, lentils, seasonal vegetables, spices, wheat and dry fish, most of which are food they are not used to eating.
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Lao PDR: “I feel helpless and useless” – Villagers share their struggles three months after dam collapse
Three months since the collapse of Laos’ Xe-Pian XeNamnoy hydropower dam cut a path of destruction through 13 villages in the province of Attapeu, many communities, including that of Mai Village, are finally able to move into government-built temporary housing after spending weeks in emergency shelters.
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A beacon of hope amid fractures and flattened homes in Sulawesi
Dr Davitan is treating Nona, 60, for a fractured arm suffered in the tragic earthquake that shook parts of western Sulawesi to pieces late September. Minutes later, the Indonesian Red Cross ambulance navigates the cracked and damaged road, following the young man on his motorcycle. Seconds after arriving, the doctor and paramedic carefully assess Asriyah, 57, discovering a fractured upper leg. It’s the biggest bone in her body, the femur.
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Ebola in DRC: behind the scenes of a complex operation
Even before the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), communities...
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Indonesia: “Everyone thought I died” – A desperate attempt to find pieces of home
It has been three weeks since the deadly tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi swept away her house. Every time she thinks about that day, her eyes get wet. “Everyone thought I died,” says Nursiah, while she tries to find valuables and clothes in the debris. Only the blue roof in the rubble reminds her of a place that used to be home.
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Camping in Cox’s Bazar… all in a day’s work at the Red Cross Red Crescent emergency hospital
Rahima Akter Khushi is a female interpreter who has been with the Red Cross Red Crescent emergency field hospital since the start.
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Indonesia: “We have nothing left.” Tsunami destroys entire villages in Palu
For Pak Junaidi, seeing a massive wall of sea water blotting out the horizon as the tsunami rolled towards his house was like watching a nightmare come to life.
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Salvadorean Red Cross helps 236 families affected by the rains
Hygiene kit and mats are part of the aid distributed by the Salvadorean Red Cross (SRC) to 236 families affected by the rains in Sonsonate, San Miguel and La Union.
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