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By Matthew Rwahigi, Rwanda Red Cross Hundreds of families whose homes and sanitation facilities were badly damaged during heavy storms in April are rebuilding a safer community with support from the Rwanda Red Cross. During a rapid assessment following …

Four artists from the Red Noses Clowndoctors International are bringing laughter and greater understanding to children who have fled violence in Ukraine.

Beauty Beowa, 25, has lost all her livestock but her loved ones have survived record floods in Bangladesh.

At least two people are believed to have died and dozens injured following a magnitude 4 earthquake in the Bay of Naples. Ischia island was the worst hit by the tremor which caused several buildings to collapse including a church and houses. Several people remain trapped under the rubble.

When the murky brown waters of the swollen river Singiehi battered her southern Nepal house to pieces, Amita Devi managed to save her five children and her identity card. But that was it. “Everything else was swept away,” she says as she stands by the …

By Nichola Jones, IFRC Emergency teams from the Spanish Red Cross have been supporting people in Barcelona following an attack which killed at least 13 and injured more than 100. Volunteers and staff have been providing emergency health care and psycho …

By Nora Peter, IFRC Communities hit by wildfires in Portugal are beginning to recover, one month after the blazes claimed more than 60 lives and forced hundreds from their homes. Leiria and Coimbra districts were among those badly affected by the worst …

Outreach activities are specially targeted towards children as agents of change in the hope of spreading the message on Zika awareness and prevention to families and by extension, communities.

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.