Theme: National Societies
The Suriname Red Cross Society (SRCS), in collaboration with the Canadian Red Cross, hosted the Public Health in Emergency (PHiE) Training…
Renowned Iraqi musician and philanthropist was nominated as Goodwill Ambassador for the Middle East for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in July 2018. Mr Shamma will use his music and public profile in the reg …
Cairo, 24 July 2018 – Following his nomination last week as Goodwill Ambassador for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) for the Middle East and North Africa, renowned Iraqi musician, Naseer Shamma donated blood y …
Distinguished members of the Board, Earlier this year I participated in the World Economic Forum and the theme was ‘Creating a shared future in a fractured world’. The assumption is that indeed our world is fractured, and is calling for peace, unity, s …
Solferino, Italy, 24 June 2018 – More than 10,000 Red Cross volunteers representing more than 60 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from around the world have gathered in the northern Italian town of Solferino for an annual tribute to the ev …
Almaty, Kazakhstan, 30 April 2018 – Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders from across Europe are meeting in Kazakhstan this week to chart their response to the region’s key humanitarian challenges. The 10th European Regional Conference of Red Cross and Re …
Host William Carter and Mina Mojtahedi, IFRC’s disability inclusion lead, about the difficulties of providing appropriate water and sanitation facilities for people with disabilities in often already challenging situations.
Local actors are always the first to respond. In Nepal, local volunteers and emergency workers were responding even as the dust from the earthquake still hung in the air. In West Africa, well before the world woke up to the true nature of the Ebola threat, local health workers and affected communities were treating and isolating the sick and burying the dead.
Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) embarked on a nance development journey in 2004, using a set of baselines focused on “measuring the impact of organizational development and change processes on the lives of vulnerable people”.
National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are continuously seeking to remain competitive and relevant in providing humanitarian services with high levels of integrity so that their position as trusted institutions is well recognized and retained, both within the country and internationally.
