Pacific Islands: IFRC releases extra funds to support Cyclone Harold response in Vanuatu

Lebanese Red Cross mobilizes 1,000 paramedics and 160 ambulances to support thousands of people

by ranacassou | Oct 22, 2019 | Lebanon, Middle East and North Africa | 0 |

The Lebanese Red Cross is providing first aid and emergency medical transportation to hospitals...

IFRC releases emergency funds to support Iraq Red Crescent relief operations

by ranacassou | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorised | 0 |

By: Rana Sidani Cassou Iraq Red Crescent Society relief operations to support people affected by...

Bangladesh: How Forecast-based Financing supported objective decision-making in advance of Cyclone Fani

by Alison Freebairn | Jun 5, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Bangladesh, Lead | 0 |

When a National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society receives a forecast of an imminent extreme...

Afghanistan: millions still in desperate need after floods crisis

by Alison Freebairn | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorised | 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.