From Ebola to disasters, the Ugandan Red Cross is used to responding to a wide range of crises. In western Uganda, for example, the Red Cross has been helping a growing number of people displaced by catastrophic yearly mudslides and floods.
The risk of flooding in Rangpur, Bangladesh represents a big challenge for people’s lives in small-scale fishing communities. Even after the destruction from the monsoon season of 2019, people are still striving to rebuild their livelihoods from scratch.
How Shimul Datta was able to set up a successful business in Kishoreganj’s local market despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Covid-19 pandemic left Rupali scraping for sources of income to provide for her family, but she managed to transform a small cash grant into a flourishing family business.
How women’s empowerment, cash programs, and resilience training are helping families in the coastal region of Bangladesh to prepare and rebuild their lives in the face of recurrent storms and floods.
For migrants lost in the middle of the sea, after fleeing persecution and war, these three words mean all the world.
In recent years, seasonal rains in southern Angola stopped coming. As crops died, people ate their valuable livestock, sold everything to buy food and then, when all was gone, they started walking.
Cash, relief, and skills training help lives flourish after floods in Bangladesh
A tale of two migrants, finding their way under the looming cloud of Covid-19 in a world where they are considered ‘illegal’ – cut off from friends, family and basic social benefits.
Juan used to work so much that he would hardly see his son Santiago. Now they are on a journey of a lifetime.
People from around the world share their story about how trauma affected their lives and how they have found support .
With heavier rains expected to hit their makeshift camps, desperate people who fled violence in Myanmar have even more to worry about.
As ongoing drought ravages large swathes of Africa, other parts of the world have been wracked by heavy rains, tropical storms, flooding and landslides.
Yemen was already the world’s single largest humanitarian crisis before it fell victim to a deadly cholera outbreak that has now claimed some 2,000 lives.
Migrants can make important contributions to the communities in which they live. Sometimes all they need is a feeling of safety and a helping hand.
Built on marshlands between a prison and one of the thousands of creeks that make up the Niger delta, the Prison Waterfront neighbourhood is one of many shanty towns to grow up on the outskirts of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
‘Healthy Lifestyles’ initiative — a recipe catching on in communities in Mexico and beyond.
Organizations discuss strategies and long-term plans to support local volunteers and aid workers who sometimes make life-and-death decisions in seconds.
Examples of the havoc the 2014–2016 El Niño weather patterns are wreaking in various corners of the globe.
Photographs taken by Victor Lacken during the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in 2014 and 2015
Powerful images of migrants drowned at sea, crossing over razor-wire fences or arriving on shore after a shipwreck have propelled the current migration phenomenon to the forefront of public consciousness in Europe in the past year.
The American Red Cross, New York Chapter, Emergency Communication Center (ECC) is a 24/7 service run by volunteers and staff who monitor fires via the radio and a direct line to the NYC fire department.
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