Offering essential services such as food or medicine to underprivileged and marginalised people, whether in times of peace, pandemic, disaster or conflict, is a great challenge. The Covid-19 crisis has affected vulnerable households in almost every country, a...
Crises are by definition breaking points. Something that we thought would hold – peace, health, transit system, electric supply, a way of life, a society – shatters. While dealing with the crisis, our understanding of the vulnerability of our world increases, as does...
The GCBC team are joined by Mike Adamson, CEO of the British Red Cross. Mike discusses the charity’s role in responding to Covid, how he’s planning to manage a significant deficit in BRC’s income over the coming years, and what the pandemic...
The UN has reminded us that the climate crisis is the biggest threat facing humanity over the long term. According to the World Food Programme, 270 million people are nearing the brink of starvation and now, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis...
Contributions by: Steve K K Kenei – Data Analyst, International Center for Humanitarian Affairs, Kenya Red Cross Society ulia Shen – Epidemiologist, Health Services Research and Policy Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine alima...
Pascale Meige, Director IFRC Disaster and Crisis DepartmentRichard Blewitt, IFRC Permanent Observer to the United NationsMaarten van Aalst, Director Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre The diagnosis: the COVID-19 pandemic as an x-ray of our vulnerability to shocks...
COVID-19 ushers in Tele-Volunteering Tree planting, home building, food service, elder care. These traditional volunteer activities date back to the birth of civilization. In fact, the Bible, Quran, Torah, and Buddhism refer to gifts of service, charity to mankind,...
General CoordinatorSpanish Red Cross Spanish Red Cross has more than 155 years of experience responding to emergencies of a very different nature. The capacities we have developed over these years have helped us facing this crisis that has been an unprecedented...
On the occasion of the 24th of June 2020, A thought, a word, to the leaders of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and to the volunteers of the Movement around the world. One year ago, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red...
