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The Croatian Red Cross has qualified and experienced staff and volunteers acting as legal guardians for unaccompanied children at reception centres.

The road from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar is lined with people who have set up make shift camps and shelters in the mud.

On Wednesday, the first aircraft carrying 21 tons of humanitarian aid sent by the IFRC arrived in Antigua to support families affected by Hurricane Irma.

We are pleased to announce the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is joining the Missing Maps Partnership. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations …

Mexican Red Cross has intensified their response mechanisms to support regions affected by the earthquake.

The Colombian Red Cross is currently piloting the use of ovitraps in 5 departments in the country.

As Irma was reaching Florida’s coast, Cuba continued to experience strong winds, torrential rains and unprecedented wave surges. On Sunday, flooding continued on the island’s north coast.

Since early this year, Vietnam has seen over 100,000 reported dengue fever cases which killed 26 people. Over 76,800 people have been hospitalized, an increase of 42 percent compared to the same period in 2016.

The bikes are gifts from the Red Cross Society of China as part of the Volunteers on Wheels project, a global initiative involving the national society and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

During the early hours of 6 September, catastrophic hurricane Irma made landfall on St Kitts and Nevis – a tiny two island nation in the Caribbean. The immediate impact of the storm caused damage to houses and other buildings, and electrical power outage.