Mud, quicksand and despair are all that’s left of many villages along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts. One month on from the devastating flash flood that tore through the region, Nepal Red Cross Society, supported by IFRC, has been working tirelessly to airlift food to remote communities, install water tanks to supply safe drinking water and set up field clinics to treat as many patients as it can every day.

Nearly two months on, communities in quake-ravaged western Colombia are slowly rebuilding shattered lives helped by global support from Red Cross societies, including New Zealand Red Cross.

New Zealand Red Cross Secretary General Sarah Stuart-Black on why locally-led disaster response and Kiwi generosity offer hope amid global crises.

The generosity of New Zealand Red Cross supporters is helping communities in Venezuela as they move from the immediate aftermath of June’s deadly earthquakes into the longer and more complex journey of recovery.

Our inaugural Giving Day in June reached our $250,000 goal to deliver an IT-in-a-Box system to the Pacific. The IT-in-a-Box system, which was designed to be a ‘plug in and go’ system, enables smooth running of computer software and online communications during normal times. But it really delivers during a disaster.