Selena and her son, Jade, were visiting Prince Albert when they heard people at home in Air Ronge were evacuating because wildfires and heavy smoke threatened their community.
The news meant they couldn't return home, not even for a toothbrush, Selena recalls.
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At around eight in the morning on a dry Thursday morning during monsoon season, a big Red Cross truck full of relief supplies shows up in front of the local school in the community of Kalikasthan. Volunteers start unloading hygiene kits, blankets, kitchen sets and tarpaulins.
Getting separated from family during the confusion of a disaster is one of the most frightening things that can happen to people. That's why the role performed during the Saskatchewan wildfires by Red Cross volunteer Barb MacLean is so important.
Près de 280 employés et bénévoles de la Croix-Rouge – provenant des Prairies et d’ailleurs au Canada – ont été mobilisés pour venir en aide aux évacués. Des travailleurs expérimentés arrivent tous les jours pour prêter main-forte en Saskatchewan ainsi que dans le centre d’hébergement mis sur pied à Cold Lake, en Alberta.
Two sisters, 12 and 6 years old, used to come by the child friendly play space at the Canadian Red Cross field hospital every day. It was set up in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, in the community of Dhunche. One day, the older sister opened up to the Canadian Red Cross aid worker providing psychosocial support and told her their story.
Qui aurait pu imaginer qu’une telle catastrophe puisse se produire tout près de chez nous? La tragédie ferroviaire qui s’est abattue sur Lac-Mégantic il y a deux ans n'est pourtant pas fictive. Dès le départ, nous savions qu’une longue et difficile épreuve attendait cette communauté. L’expérience nous a aussi prouvé que dans de tels drames, le rétablissement des collectivités passe par un engagement à long terme de notre part.
More than 150 Canadian Red Cross volunteers and staff from the Prairies and other parts of Canada have been mobilized to assist thousands of people who had to evacuate their homes in Northern Saskatchewan as a result of fires.
Eight colourfully dressed Tamang women sit in the community health post in Goljung in Rasua district, high in the Himalayas of Nepal. They’re the local community health volunteers and they usually take care of 10 to 15 patients a day in the remote community of 1,000. Today they’ve gathered around to meet the Canadian Red Cross health team.