Archive for March, 2012
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Video: Volunteers talk about the challenges of providing medical care at times of crisis
Posted on March 30, 2012 | 1 CommentThe Syrian Arab Red Crescent and ICRC continue to work in difficult situations, providing medical care and support during a time of crisis. Volunteers talk about the work they’re doing... -
A visual history of the American Red Cross
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsWriter Jill Harness from Mental Floss has scoured the US Library of Congress to find some brilliant images from the long history of the American Red Cross. There are shots... -
Epic journey from Birmingham to Beijing reaches Kazakhstan to raise £1million for Uganda
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe 8,000 mile journey being undertaken by a team from Landrover from the UK to China has made it most of the way across Europe and is now on the border of Kazakhstan. -
Slideshow – Violence prevention in disasters
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsYesterday the Canadian Red Cross and IFRC held a join workshop on effective violence prevention before, during and after a disaster. In addition to publishing a new report on the subject, the two organisations have created a presentation/photo essay discussing the issues around violence and disaster. -
Volunteering leads to a whole new world
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsThis year’s World Red Cross Red Crescent Day on May 8th, has as its theme ‘Youth on the move’, so this is story about a volunteer who went on to... -
How would you end poverty around the world?
Posted on March 28, 2012 | No CommentsThe Institute for the Future has launched an ambitious attempt to crowdsource solutions to global poverty through a game being launched on April 3rd. The idea behind the project is... -
The peril of unexploded munitions after the conflict in Libya
Posted on March 28, 2012 | No CommentsThe ICRC and Libyan Red Crescent have been involved in the process of clearing away unexploded munitions in the aftermath of last year’s conflict. And as is often the case,... -
Report: violence prevention before, during and after a disaster
Posted on March 28, 2012 | 1 CommentThe Canadian Red Cross and IFRC have published a new report about violence prevention during disasters. The report, called Predictable, preventable: Overcoming the challenges of violence during and after disasters (1.4MB PDF),... -
The new face of digital disaster response and volunteering
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsThe American Red Cross has recently opened up a new Digital Operations Centre which will allow the organisation to tap into social media to improve disaster and beneficiary communications. The... -
Keeping the garden growing during the drought
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsBy Kalle Lindberg in Niger The vegetables are not the only things flourishing in Zakiré Zarma village in Niger. The children that lend a hand watering the vegetables look happy... -
ICANN and the Red Cross: An exceptional exception
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsRecently the organisation which manages the top level domain (TLD) names on the internet (think .uk, .com, .ee, etc.) has begun a process of allowing new TLDs names (such as,... -
Sahel food crisis: let’s make it personal
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsI was in a remote village in the middle of the hot, barren, sandy savannah in Burkina Faso. There, I met Ouilimatou Diko, a young boy, not even two years old, who had just been diagnosed by a Red Cross nurse as acutely malnourished. -
How does the Red Cross Red Crescent communicate with people during a crisis?
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No CommentsWe're in a midst of a communications revolution that is being driven by both technology and a desire to connect. This alters the ways we engage with communities in a disaster. -
Where is the Sahel food crisis in the media?
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsCraig Burnett at the British Red Cross talks about the difficulties in ensuring the slowly developing crises, such as the food security issues in the Sahel, get the media coverage... -
Learning new healthy habits in Pakistan – “Clean water is vital for life”
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsAccording to Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, almost 40 million people do not have safe drinking water and 48 million people do not have proper toilets in Pakistan.
