Red Cross stories
Red Cross stories
Read our stories filled with humanity, resilience and the spirit of volunteering. They show how your support is helping vulnerable people in New Zealand and around the world.
21 September 2023
Investing in resilience: ASB joins Disaster Response Alliance
ASB is our newest Disaster Response Alliance partner. The Disaster Response Alliance is a critical way for businesses to provide ongoing support for our disaster response work and to strengthen community resilience.
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18 September 2023
Staying with communities through long-term recovery
We’re still working with communities as they move through their longer-term recovery. Read about our support for individual grant programmes, grants for mental health initiatives and how we’re helping people move home with the Red Cross Home Bundles programme.
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8 September 2023
You never know when you’ll need to use first aid skills
Jaimee Astle, our Senior Web Advisor, recently attended a first aid course at our Christchurch Service Centre, not knowing that within half an hour of finishing the first day of training, she would need to use the skills she'd just learned – and twice in quick succession.
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30 August 2023
Long-lost cousins reconnected after 40 years
Red Cross’ Restoring Family Links programme played a crucial role in reconnecting three cousins after more than 40 years.
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28 August 2023
Meals on Wheels volunteering runs through generations
Kay and Karan are among the 3,000 volunteers with New Zealand Red Cross who deliver hot meals to people unable to cook for themselves. Find out about their Meals on Wheels journey.
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