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Red Cross Aids Ecuadorian Volcano Survivors
The American Red Cross joined an international relief mission after Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano exploded twice this summer, threatening surrounding villages and destroying food supplies....
September 27, 2006
Red Cross Offers Psychosocial Support to Earthquake Victims
Ibu Raja was crying when American Red Cross worker Sujata Bordoloi approached her. Raja’s village in Klaten, Indonesia, was leveled by the May 27 earthquake that killed her beloved daughter and many o...
June 7, 2006
Pakistani President Honors Relief Work of American Red Cross
Saluting the American Red Cross for its aid in the wake of a devastating earthquake nearly one year ago, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf presented the “Star of Sacrifice” award to Bonnie McElveen...
September 22, 2006
Clean Water Makes Communities Healthier in Sri Lanka
For many people, getting a drink of water is as easy as turning on a faucet or grabbing a bottle from the refrigerator, and most people in developed countries don’t think twice about their sanitation ...
May 31, 2006
Measles Initiative Partners Launch Integrated Health Campaign in Indonesia
It’s a rare occasion to be in a room filled with screaming, crying children and see only smiles on mothers’ faces. But today is a no ordinary day – it’s measles vaccination day in Indonesia....
September 13, 2006
Fighting to survive the stigma in Kenya
DEEP in the Gitari Marigu slums of Nairobi’s Dandora area, the family of Josephat (37) barely exists.Josephat and his 35 year-old wife Mercy (35) are both living with HIV. They have no job...
May 9, 2006
Strengthening Indonesian Communities through Disaster Training
Over the past several months, the people of Indonesia have endured a series of unrelenting catastrophes. The Yogyakarta earthquake on May 27, the earthquake and tsunami in southern Java on July 27 and...
September 8, 2006
 
ICRC Staff Member Killed In Sudan
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has learned that one of its staff members, a 31-y...
August 30, 2006
 
Restoring Clean Water in the Maldives
It’s tough to imagine having water problems on an island located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but that is exactly what thousands of people in the Maldives are facing....
August 30, 2006
 
Restoring family links with people affected by the conflict in Sri Lanka
As a result of the increased violence in Sri Lanka in recent weeks, a significant number of people ha...
August 28, 2006
 
ICRC Launches Family Tracing Webpage
Geneva (ICRC) – Since hostilities began on 12 July, the conflict has displaced huge numbers of people. While phone lines are generally working, allowing families to keep in touch, the number of peo...
July 28, 2006
 
Lebanon: ICRC sharply increases its humanitarian response
Geneva (ICRC) – With no end in sight for the hostilities in Lebanon and civilian casualties rising daily, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is appealing toda...
July 28, 2006
 
Red Cross Responds to Second Tsunami in Less Than Two Years
Members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) are responding to an earthquake-triggered tsunami in Indonesia that struck the southwest coast of Java last Monday. ...
July 26, 2006
 
Repatriation of Evacuees from Lebanon
As the violence in the Middle East continues, American citizens have been fleeing the country for safety. The recent outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began after two Israeli soldiers ...
July 22, 2006
 
International Federation launches appeal to help Red Crescent Societies assist evacuees from Lebanon
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is launching a preliminary appeal for 1.3 million Swiss francs (€ 846,000/1 million US$) to support the assistance programmes set u...
July 21, 2006
 
Lebanon: First ICRC aid convoy reaches Tyre
The Lebanese Red Cross is one of the only organizations that is still able to evacuate the wounded and civilians under fire. Though it is operational in various places in southern Lebanon, its range o...
July 21, 2006
 
Java tsunami: remote villages hard hit
The Indonesian Red Cross is reporting widespread damage in remote areas west of Pangandaran, the area previously thought to be hardest-hit by Monday’s killer tsunami along the southwest coast of Java....
July 20, 2006
 
DPRK: Floods leave thousands homeless
Since 14 July, typhoon rains, landslides and flash floods have left more than 9,000 families homeless in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. At least 100 people are reported as dead or missing ...
July 18, 2006
 
Educating Teachers to Help Children in Sri Lanka
In the days and weeks following the December 2004 tsunami, the American Red Cross psychosocial support team visited dozen of schools in southern Sri Lanka to help children overcome their emotional tra...
July 7, 2006
 
Red Cross Responds to Cholera Outbreak in Angola
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cholera claims the lives of 150,000 people in developing countries each year. Although the disease has been virtually eliminated in the United States,...
July 6, 2006
 
Evacuees Get Warm Red Cross Welcome
Red Crossers greet flights of evacuees from Lebanon arriving at BWI Airport
 “Boogie to the way other end of the airport,” is what Baltimore Sun reporter Chris Yakaitis reported hearing American Red Cross volunteer Pat Ash say as she pointed down the terminal for two new...
July 1, 2006
 
American Red Cross Welcomes Israel’s Magen David Adom and Palestine Red Crescent Society to International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
Today, the American Red Cross welcomes and celebrates the membership of Magen David Adom (MDA) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The incl...
June 21, 2006
 
World Blood Donor Day 2006 pays tribute to voluntary blood donors
Thai Red Cross Society, working together with Ministry of Public Health, is organizing a major celebration to mark the occasion of the World Blood Donor Day 2006 on June 14 at the National Blood Centr...
June 14, 2006
 
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