BBC News (World) sur Twitter : "2 Red Cross staff shot dead in Yemen; lone gunman thought to have opened fire on their vehicle. Yemen crisis: Red Cross staff shot dead in Amran - BBC News. Image copyright AFP The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says two of its local workers have been shot dead in Yemen. It is believed a lone gunman opened fire on their vehicle as they travelled through the northern province of Amran. Aid agencies have been trying to reach millions of people in Yemen, who lack basic supplies because of the conflict that has been raging there for months. The killings come just over a week after gunmen raided the ICRC's offices in the southern port city of Aden.
They held staff at gunpoint and demanded money, vehicles and other equipment. The attack, one of at least 10 recent security breaches the ICRC has faced in Aden, prompted the organisation to temporarily suspend its local aid operations. 'Deliberate targeting' An ICRC statement said the field officer and driver - both from Yemen - were travelling with two colleagues in a convoy between Saada province and the capital, Sanaa, when the gunman stopped their vehicle and shot them. Ten Years Later - Share Your Volunteer Experiences - Posted on August 18th, 2015 by Jordan Scott This month marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast, launching an unprecedented disaster relief effort which stretched across the entire country.
For many current Red Cross volunteers, Katrina served as their introduction to disaster relief and volunteerism, as thousands were inspired to join in the massive effort to bring comfort and aid to those impacted. Ten years since Katrina marks the 10-year anniversary for many volunteers continuing to serve today, and we want to hear your story! Tell us about your first volunteer experience during Katrina, what inspired you to continue your service afterward, and what have your experiences been like since then? Don’t forget to tell us who you are and which Red Cross Chapter/Region you call ‘home’…though of course you may remain anonymous if you’d like.
Thank you for sharing your stories and, most importantly, thank you for your continued selfless service! Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic blasts still echo, 70 years on. Seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Red Cross Society hospitals are still treating thousands of survivors for long-term health effects, with nearly two-thirds of deaths among them due to cancer.
“Even after so many decades, we continue to see the catastrophic health impact from the use of nuclear weapons on these two cities,” said ICRC President Peter Maurer. “What more compelling argument could there be for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, especially as most of the bombs in the arsenals of nuclear armed states today are more powerful and destructive?”
With nearly 200,000 survivors still alive it is expected that many thousands will continue to need care for radiation related illnesses in the coming years, while the psychological impact of the bombings continues to haunt even those survivors not physically ill. The Japanese Red Cross Society has run hospitals for atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima since 1956 and in Nagasaki since 1969. Volunteers Help Amtrak Crash Survivors Arriving in NYC. Red Cross LA Region sur Twitter : "31 Days of Red - What We’ve Learned #31DaysofRed #RedCrossMonth. What We’ve Learned « Red Cross LA Talks. Sticking up for the Red Cross: Letter. The answer to the Nov. 4 editorial, "Can we still trust the Red Cross after Sandy? " is yes. You can trust the Red Cross. I am a New Jersey resident and a Red Cross volunteer. I volunteered for more than two months in the aftermath of Sandy. During my tenure, I saw Red Cross volunteers and employees from New Jersey and beyond work tirelessly doing good and giving people the comfort and relief that is the Red Cross mission.
After Sandy, I witnessed nothing but selfless dedication to help. Thousands of volunteers like me have no voice to share the good work we have seen the Red Cross do, other than to write to newspaper editors and hopefully have it reported. . — Fred Schlesinger, American Red Cross Volunteer, Lebanon Twp. The answer to the Nov. 4 editorial, "Can we still trust the Red Cross after Sandy? " I am a New Jersey resident and a Red Cross volunteer. After Sandy, I witnessed nothing but selfless dedication to help. . — Fred Schlesinger, American Red Cross Volunteer, Lebanon Twp. Image uploaded by @BerwickRedCross. The Cost Of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years Of Regret : Planet Money. Hide captionU.S. soldiers receive refreshments, including doughnuts, from an American Red Cross clubmobile in London.
Soldiers today still resent a Red Cross move to charge for doughnuts. Library of Congress A lot of the online services you probably use are free. Gmail is free. Facebook is free. Yahoo News and NPR are free (though we certainly solicit contributions!). But increasingly, online companies are trying to figure out how to start charging, at least for some services, some of the time. But today, we have a cautionary tale about charging for things that were once free. The story starts when Russ Roberts, a George Mason University economist, started hearing about how veterans don't like the Red Cross. "And I thought, the doughnuts? " Go to any VFW hall, even today, and you'll get the same story: During World War II, the Red Cross had comfort stations for soldiers overseas, with free coffee and free doughnuts. Turns out it's true. Mission Moment: Responding to Aurora Shooting and other mass casualty incidents.
Red Cross Mobile Apps. Humanitarian. Helpman and the Red Cross Red Crescent (cartoon) Anne Manuel - Teaching the EHL Curriculum in class. Broadcast Yourself. Broadcast Yourself. Syria: Red Crescent volunteers on total alert. Red Cross Responds to Tornadoes. Syria: a mission to save lives. Labels. American Red Cross Global Impact 2009. Photos of the Decade: American Red Cross. American Red Cross DST (Disaster Services Technology) Team. 2011 Year in Pictures from the American Red Cross. Red Cross Digital Operations Center Opens.
Getting to Know Red Cross ERV Drivers. ERVs on Parade. Irish Red Cross International Services. Tips For Surviving A Flood. Top 10 Tips for Emergency Preparedness. Safe and Well: Register yourself or search for loved ones. March is Red Cross Month. Join us! Saving lives, changing minds. Story of an Idea - the animation. The long road to recovery one year on from the earthquake and tsunami. By Francis Markus One year after Japan’s worst recorded natural disaster, the area hit by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami is showing clear signs of recovery. The tsunami caused devastation along a 700km stretch of coastline on the north east of Japan’s Honshu Island. Now, almost 70 per cent of the estimated 22 million tons of debris has been painstakingly cleared, electricity and communications have been restored and local businesses are slowly re-establishing themselves.
But progress in the hardest-hit towns is slow. The Japanese Red Cross Society, which deployed nearly 900 medical teams and hundreds of psychosocial workers to support the relief operation, is now focused on addressing the needs of more than 300,000 people living in temporary accommodation. “We are doing our utmost to make people comfortable, even though the conditions are cramped and cold in winter. What that means in practice is that wellness is made up of both physical and psychological factors. Japan earthquake and tsunami: one year on. The ICRC in the Middle East. The ICRC maintains a strong presence throughout the Middle East, helping the thousands of victims of past and current conflicts. It does so through a range of protection and assistance activities, plus action to promote respect for international humanitarian law.
Its activities depend on the situation but are always rooted in the organization’s neutral, independent and impartial approach. Key operations The ICRC in Syria Since the onset of the violence in Syria in March 2011, the ICRC has been doing its utmost to respond to the needs of those affected by the fighting. Together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, the ICRC has been providing water, food, medical materials and other items to millions people affected by the fighting to help them cope with the situation.
The ICRC in Iraq The ICRC's Iraq delegation focuses on detainee welfare, assistance to vulnerable groups and clarifying the fate of people missing from earlier conflicts. Our world. Your move. (Arabic version) Clara Barton: The Beginnings of the American Red Cross. Share photos and videos on Twitter. Youth with a vision - Youth on the move. A Memory of Solferino. 31-12-1986 Publication Ref. 0361 Henry Dunant This is the book that prompted the creation of what is now a worldwide movement with millions of members and made the name of Henry Dunant known everywhere.
The account has moved many people and still does today. "One finishes this book cursing war", wrote the Goncourt brothers in the nineteenth century. Since it was first published in 1862, the book has been translated into so many languages and reprinted so many times that it is difficult to know how many versions exist throughout the world. Author(s): Henry Dunant Copyright: ICRC Release year: 1986 Production locations: Geneva Languages available: English, French, Spanish*, Arabic*, Chinese* Type of product: Book Price: CHF 2.- Reference: 0361 147 pp., illus., photos, map, 12 x 18 cm * To order the Spanish version of this publication, contact us by E-mail. * To order the Arabic version of this publication, contact us by E-mail.
Story of an Idea - the film. Together for humanity. The Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross Red Crescent. Rescuing the American Red Cross. Established in 1881, the American Red Cross is one of the most well-known emergency response organizations in the world aiding victims of natural disasters and other emergencies. It counts with more than half a million volunteers and 35,000 employees across 700 national chapters. Recently, a new logo and design standards designed by Turner Duckworth have been quietly implemented. The Brand Standards manual can be seen here [PDF] and covers more than is represented in this post, in case you are interested. The pin is a symbol of enthusiastic participation. It is a personal, grassroots and unique expression for the American Red Cross.— Brand Standards [PDF] Source of inspiration (shown cropped).
There is three versions of the logo: The “Button” logo, above, for marketing purposes; and the “Classic” logo and wordmarks, below, for use “in disaster situations, as well as times when a marketing-oriented button logo is not appropriate.” Color proportion image. The Cross Pattern. Concept image. 15km trek by volunteers for mountain rescue in snow-bound Serbia. By Uros Smiljanic in Belgrade In the last ten days, temperatures in Serbia have dipped to values far below average for this time of the year.
The highlands municipality of Sjenica is the coldest spot in Europe at the moment, with the temperature dropping to -30 degrees. The situation is complicated by heavy snowfall that has cut off remote villages in 16 municipalities, all declaring state of emergency. An estimated 11,500 people are reported to be isolated. Six people have died because of gales and cold weather, while one is still missing. The biggest need in these hard-to-reach areas is providing medical services to older households. The municipality of Brus, near mountain Kopaonik is the biggest winter tourism destination in Serbia. On 2 February, the Red Cross was part of a rescue effort to save the life of 82-year-old Svetolik Simić.
The Red Cross of Brus has five Mountain and Water Rescue volunteers available around the clock. A Red Cross rescue of Russian children. The improbable tale began in the spring nearly 94 years ago, when the hungry city of Petrograd — now St. Petersburg — put thousands of its children and chaperoning teachers on trains headed a thousand miles southeast to the Ural Mountains, where they would spend the summer eating nourishing food in fresh air, far from the city where the deprivations of World War I were still being felt. Most of the children returned to Petrograd uneventfully at the end of the summer, but nearly 800 who had been sent east of the Urals found themselves trapped because of the civil war that had begun that year. During skirmishes between the Reds and the Whites, the train line to the west was cut.
Sent from home in summer clothes, the children — ages 5 to 16 — were growing cold and hungry as fall approached. When the Red Cross volunteers found them, they put them on trains eastward to Vladivostok, a Pacific port city full of refugees of various nationalities from both wars. Olga Molkina, a St. A long voyage. Happy Birthday, Clara Barton. Red Cross and Red Crescent meet States to strengthen humanitarian action. Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The conference starting on 28 November brings together representatives of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement - the world's largest humanitarian network - and of the States party to the Geneva Conventions. Over 2,000 people are expected to attend the event. One of the objectives of the conference is to push for improved security so that health care can be delivered unimpeded in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.
"People die in large numbers because armed conflict or other violence hinders their access to health care or because doctors, hospitals or ambulances are directly attacked," said Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). TEDxRC2 - Geneva. Welcome to the Virginia Capital Region Red Cross. NY Red Cross. Karen Lund. NY Islanders and Red Cross to host Walk for Disaster Relief. EmotionalHealth. Answering “What If?” Posted by Karen E. Lund in Emergency Preparedness. Tags: #UsBlogs, Disaster, Emergency Preparedness, Red Cross trackback Unanswered questions are scary. That’s what I scrawled in my blog notebook back in October after I gave a Ready New York presentation in Brooklyn, not far from where a tornado had touched down a few days earlier. Tornadoes are rare in this part of the country, but every couple of years we have a small one.
Or, in this case, two—one in Brooklyn and another in Queens. Someone at the presentation had said she knew emergency preparedness is important, but thinking about possible emergencies scared her. When I became an American Red Cross volunteer I started to think seriously about emergency preparedness; now I give presentations to help others prepare. As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” Those tornadoes in September, for example. All Hazards & “What If?” Emergency managers sometimes talk about an “all-hazards approach.” My Proudest Moment. Posted by Karen E. Lund in Emergency Preparedness, Knowledge, Learning, Non-Profit, Volunteer. Tags: Collaboration, Disaster, Emergency Preparedness, Knowledge, Learning, Non-Profit, Red Cross, Volunteer trackback In case you didn’t know, March is American Red Cross Month, as it has been every year since 1943.
On March 1 the Cape Fear Chapter tweeted an intriguing question: “What is your favorite experience with the Red Cross?” The thing I can tell you without hesitation is my proudest moment in the American Red Cross. The old Brooklyn Chapter building was the headquarters for the World Trade Center disaster response. I became an American Red Cross volunteer on October 5, 2001, as a Local Disaster Volunteer on the September 11 response. At first I did miscellaneous office help. Then in early August 2005 I received an e-mail about new training available for a national disaster call center. Almost exactly 12 hours before the class, Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Like this: Presidential Proclamation--American Red Cross Month, 2011. The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 28, 2011 For over a century, the American Red Cross has harnessed the generosity of the American people, mobilizing us to offer assistance in the wake of disaster.
Whether aiding towns fighting rising floodwaters or nations struggling with starvation and disease, the American Red Cross and its international partners have served during crises across the United States and around the world. The American Red Cross has a long history of partnering with Presidents of the United States to confront the world's most pressing challenges. Emergency response organizations like the American Red Cross play a vital role in relief operations by deploying scores of volunteers to rebuild communities hit by disaster and by providing critical support and resources at home and abroad. Social Media Week NY (Paley) Earthquake in Haiti. Account for Haiti. American Red Cross. International Committee of the Red Cross. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Red Cross Red Crescent - Field operations in Pakistan.