Afghanistan: millions still in desperate need after floods crisis

by Alison Freebairn | May 21, 2019 | Featured content | 0 |

Afghan Red Crescent volunteers and staff are still hard at work distributing food parcels,...

Clean-up operation begins after deadly Cyclone Fani hits India and Bangladesh

by Alison Freebairn | May 5, 2019 | Uncategorised | 0 |

Powerful Cyclone Fani, at its worst an “extremely severe” storm, brought heavy rainfall and winds...

Communities on high alert as Cyclone Fani makes landfall

by Alison Freebairn | May 3, 2019 | Uncategorised | 0 |

Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest storms to hit the Indian subcontinent in decades, made landfall...

Cyclone Kenneth: More people displaced as flood waters rise

by Alison Freebairn | May 1, 2019 | Uncategorised | 0 |

Mozambique has been hammered by two strong cyclones in a matter of weeks and this new disaster is...

Afghanistan flood survivors fear for the future

by Ika Mudzar | Apr 15, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Lead | 0 |

The sound of heavy rain and the frightened screams of young children tore through the night and jolted Shahghul awake from his sleep. It was a wake-up call everyone dreaded.

In pictures: Life at ground zero of a measles outbreak

by Ika Mudzar | Feb 25, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Lead | 0 |

As the measles outbreak in the Philippines claims more lives, a massive social mobilization is underway, working among those who are most vulnerable to try and ward off a threatened explosion in the highly infectious disease.

Philippines: Red Cross responds to deadly measles outbreak

by Alison Freebairn | Feb 20, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Humanitarian | 0 |

More than 8,440 cases of measles – including 136 deaths from the disease – have been...

Forecast-based Financing: Early Action Protocol in place to protect Peru’s alpaca herders

by Alison Freebairn | Feb 12, 2019 | Americas, Humanitarian, Lead | 0 |

The Red Cross and Red Crescent’s first ever Early Action Protocol funded by IFRC’s Forecast-based...

Central America: Red Cross gives a helping hand to people in need

by Alison Freebairn | Jan 25, 2019 | Uncategorised | 0 |

Red Cross teams in Central America are bringing medical support, water and kindness to exhausted...

In Pictures: Kids’ influenza crisis in Mongolia

by Ika Mudzar | Jan 25, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Lead | 0 |

Mongolia is in the grips of a serious influenza A (H1N1) outbreak. The combination of extreme cold, toxic air, poverty, the risk of pneumonia and the coming Lunar New Year are posing deadly risks especially for young children. Temperatures lower than minus 40 degrees Celsius, air pollution and cramped living conditions are pushing up influenza rates, making it a kids’ crisis. In the Songinokhairkhan District Hospital, Galsantseden Badrakh, the hospital’s chief physician and leading pediatrician, is seeing an overflow of patients.