Canadian Red Crosser Dr. Mausam Bohara shares her experience working on the ground in Bangladesh, providing care for people who are fleeing violence in Myanmar.
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Uganda is currently facing one of the world’s largest refugee crises. As the host country with the largest refugee population in Africa, Uganda hosts an estimated 1.3 million refugees from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi. New arrivals come every day, of which the vast majority are women and children.
High school student Ibrahim Ali Muse joined the Somali Red Crescent Society's response to an outbreak last year. He and other volunteers were a part of a treatnent centre which was supported by the Canadian Red Cross and the Government of Canada.
Un minuscule bébé emmailloté dans une couverture dort dans les bras de sa mère sous le regard attentif de sa grand-mère.
Guy Lozeau will never forget the night of October 11, 2011. He remembers pushing away his dog Max, who was desperately trying to wake him up. Thick black smoke was already filling the apartment, but the hum from the air conditioning was covering up the sound of the smoke detectors.
En septembre 2016, alors que l’ouragan Matthew commençait à se former au-dessus de l’Atlantique, le personnel de la Croix-Rouge redoutait déjà le pire. Les bénévoles de la Croix-Rouge haïtienne se sont rapidement mobilisés pour avertir les collectivités qui se trouvaient dans la trajectoire de la tempête afin de les aider à prendre les mesures nécessaires pour assurer leur sécurité.
The image of a group of women heading out to the makeshift camps in Bangladesh, their Red Cross t-shirts visible beneath their lightweight headscarves, remains in the mind of Denyse Bourgault. Bourgault was on the ground in the Cox’s Bazar district as a psychosocial support (PSS) delegate from the Canadian Red Cross to help those who crossed the border fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Monsieur Lozeau n’oubliera jamais la nuit du 11 octobre 2011. Il se souvient d’avoir repoussé son chien Max qui tentait désespérément de le réveiller. Une fumée noir dense emplissait déjà l’appartement, mais l’air climatisé masquait le son des détecteurs de fumée.