The IFRC’s Americas Regional Office works in support of 35 National Red Cross. Through its Country Cluster Support Teams and its technical unit, it provides coordination, financial and technical support for disaster operations and longer term development programmes throughout the region.
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Yeltza is a nurse by profession, but due to the care that her little girl needs, she cannot dedicate herself to that; therefore, she generates income doing what in Venezuela was a hobby for her.
Dora and William are part of the Cash-based Intervention of the Red Cross. This program gives a card to vulnerable families, so they can spend on what they need most right now.
“During this period of fear and anguish around the world, when most of the population is at home, we choose to take care of others, out of love,”
IFRC is preparing for the 2020 Hurricane Season in the Atlantic and Pacific regions, as the second storm of the season crosses the northern Caribbean.
In the middle of the “Parque del Agua” in Bucaramanga, Santander, it is possible to watch Colombian Red Cross personnel providing primary health care to migrants during medical days.
- Director: Walter Cotte
- Deputy Director: Jan Gelfand
Country cluster support teams
- South Cone and Brazil Country Cluster: Alexandre Claudon
- Andean Country Cluster: Michele Detomaso
- Central America Country Cluster: Nelson Aly / El Salvador – Guatemala: Marissa Soberanis / Panama: Roxana Trigo
- Latin Caribbean Country Cluster: Ines Brill
- English speaker Caribbean: Josephine Shield-Recass
Recent press releases
Recent documents
The Zika, dengue and chikungunya prevention toolkit is intended to be used with the Zika, dengue and chikungunya prevention modules. The toolkit features full-colour imagery, interactive formats and games material to teach all audiences according to the methodology suggested in the module guides.
National Societies
- American Red Cross
- Antigua and Barbuda Red Cross Society
- Argentine Red Cross
- The Bahamas Red Cross Society
- The Barbados Red Cross Society
- Belize Red Cross Society
- Bolivian Red Cross
- Brazilian Red Cross
- The Canadian Red Cross Society
- Chilean Red Cross
- Colombian Red Cross Society
- Costa Rican Red Cross
- Cuban Red Cross
- Paraguayan Red Cross
- Peruvian Red Cross
- Saint Kitts and Nevis Red Cross Society
- Saint Lucia Red Cross
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Red Cross
- Salvadorean Red Cross Society
- Suriname Red Cross
- The Bahamas Red Cross Society
- Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross Society
- Uruguayan Red Cross
- Venezuelan Red Cross
