On a misty, pre-monsoon morning at the Canadian Red Cross field hospital, a colourful line-up is forming of elderly Nepalese women in traditional embroideries and heavy brass earrings, crying children, and a few proud, wiry men.
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Tucked in her mother’s lap, two-year-old Sandya Tamang watches other children build blocks, count wooden beads, and tussle over stuffed toys.
It’s Sandya’s first day at the play space created by the Canadian Red Cross for children affected by the Nepal earthquakes.
Shortly before her first child was due, Diki Dolma trekked for days across mountain trails devastated by the Nepal earthquakes to reach the Canadian Red Cross field hospital in Dhunche.
Le 20 mai dernier, des représentants du monde des affaires et autres personnalités de la scène montréalaise étaient réunis pour souligner le travail remarquable et essentiel de la Croix-Rouge ici comme ailleurs dans le monde.
Un groupe d’enfants népalais pleins d’entrain sont assis à l’intérieur d’une tente de la Croix‑Rouge canadienne. Comme toujours, ils sont souriants et semblent paisibles, mais il est difficile de savoir ce qui se passe vraiment dans la tête de ces petits êtres qui viennent de survivre à deux séismes. Certains n’ont plus de maison, alors que d’autres ignorent où se trouvent les membres de leur famille ou ont perdu un ami.
Red Cross aid worker Bonnie Kearns, a nurse from Sarnia, Ontario, has been in Nepal for the past several weeks, working in a remote community affected by the earthquake to provide basic health care services.
She describes a close call she experienced on May 12, when a second powerful earthquake struck the country, and how a young local Red Cross volunteer came to offer protection.
As darkness began to settle in Nepal Tuesday night after the second earthquake hit, a newborn baby’s cry restored the spirits of a team of nine Canadian Red Cross aid workers in Khukondole.
So many friends and supporters of the Canadian Red Cross answered our call for photos showing family and friends wearing lifejackets as we marked National Lifejacket Day.
We compiled some of the great pics shared on social media using #LifeJacketLiving and #LaVieEnGilet.