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Two weeks ago, our world looked a bit different. We were providing psycho-social support at a transit camp for refugees near Munich in Germany as part of a Canadian Red Cross team assisting the German Red Cross. There we witnessed the best of humanity, the resilience and the courage of refugees, as well as the devastating effects of conflict in home countries, and the consequences of trauma during migration.

With most heart attacks occurring at home, do you feel prepared to respond in a cardiac emergency?
November is CPR month to bring awareness to the importance of being prepared to help someone in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Alors que l’Allemagne continue d’accueillir des milliers de réfugiés, les équipes de la Croix-Rouge allemande les accueillent dans les centres  et les camps mis sur pied pour les loger. Notre collègue Esther Laforte, directrice adjointe du service d’intervention au Québec, a été déployée au camp Erding en Allemagne pour soutenir la Croix-Rouge allemande dans ses interventions auprès des réfugiés.

While Germany continues to take in thousands of refugees fleeing violence in their countries, the German Red Cross welcomes them into reception centres and camps. Canadian Red Cross staff member Esther Laforte, Deputy Director, Disaster Management in Quebec, was deployed to a camp in Erding, Germany, to support the German Red Cross' refugee response efforts.

How do some countries and regions escape relatively unscathed from major disasters, while others struggle to recover from these events? Many factors are at play, and while it’s impossible to compare one disaster with another, it’s clear that the level of preparedness and the local capacity to respond quickly to the disaster can significantly improve the outcomes.

Plus que deux dodos avant l’Halloween! Avec toutes les sorcières, les fantômes et les super héros qui déambuleront dans votre quartier, soyez préparés à toute éventualité. Voici des conseils pour profiter de la soirée en toute sécurité. 

As I was driving I noticed a young lady running down her front driveway shouting for help at a white SUV in front of me. The SUV didn’t stop. The young lady then shouted to me for help, so I pulled over right away. I got out of my truck and ran across the road to find another young lady at the side of the house with a small baby on her knees. She was crying, saying that her baby had choked on her lunch and wasn’t breathing. 

Le récit d’Émilie Gauthier Paré, déléguée de la Croix-Rouge canadienne, qui se trouve actuellement au Camp Idomeni, en Grèce, pour offrir un soutien psychosocial aux réfugiés. On la voit ici en compagnie d’une mère syrienne, qui a tout laissé derrière elle dans l’espoir de rebâtir sa vie et celle de sa famille en Allemagne.