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.
23 February 2023
Cash assistance provides vital, dignified support for Ukrainians
Red Cross cash assistance is providing much needed support to the people of Ukraine affected by conflict.
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29 August 2022
Searching for the missing
As we mark the International Day of the Disappeared Luz Mery Johnstone, a Restoring Family Links (RFL) practitioner with New Zealand Red Cross, shares her story of what it’s like to live with anguish, uncertain hope and unanswered questions about a family member who has involuntarily disappeared.
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22 February 2021
Every family reunited
Forced to flee his family and everything he'd ever known, Ali Mashal's story is one of survival, hope and determination.
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