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Red Cross staff and volunteers are frantically working alongside emergency officials to rescue survivors and assist desperate communities that have lost their homes and loved ones in yesterday’s mudslides in and around the capital Freetown.

Slowly but surely, everyday life is returning for people affected by a powerful magnitude 7 earthquake that struck China’s central Sichuan Province on 8 August.

We are receiving awful reports out of Sierra Leone, where hundreds of lives have been lost in flooding and mudslides.

“I believe that volunteering helps us build our communities, make them better and stronger.” Azamat Baialinov, President of the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan

Bas van Rossum says young people need to be more involved in the humanitarian actions that affect them. But that means giving them more power.

Since the beginning of 2017 Brazil has experienced the greatest outbreak of jungle yellow fever in decades.

Sarah Bach suggests a truly innovative approach to dealing with some of life’s more challenging problems: asking young people.

Every year, monsoon rains cause the Jamuna River to overflow, flooding villages in Sirajganj, Bangladesh and damaging or destroying homes and livelihoods across the district.

The Spanish Red Cross has increased support at ports and borders following a dramatic increase in migrant arrivals.

A New Zealand Red Cross refugee support volunteer has been giving more support than she had bargained for after helping with the birth of a baby boy.