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.
29 September 2022
Our welcome to Masterton felt like we were back with family
As they set off from Te Āhuru Mōwai o Aotearoa I Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre to Masterton, Ali Shaukat and Asfa Mubarik remember their daughters' excitement to be finally heading to their new home.
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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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25 August 2022
New General Manager Organisational Services Appointed
Jane Derbyshire has been appointed General Manager, Organisational Services and will join the New Zealand Red Cross on 17 October.
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22 August 2022
First anniversary of Afghan evacuees arriving in New Zealand
A year ago today (23 August 2021) the first Afghan evacuees arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand. Many arrived with just the clothes they were wearing when they fled their country as the Taliban took-over rule.
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26 May 2022
International delegate returns from Ukraine
New Zealand Red Cross international delegate and security expert John Dyer has just returned from a five-week deployment to Ukraine. He was based in Western Ukraine where he saw a different view of the country to what many of us understand.
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