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.
19 May 2025
Harnessing enthusiastic promise – Junior Red Cross, Red Cross Youth, and young people
Since 1915, thousands of people have mobilised for New Zealand Red Cross to harness collective energy into humanitarian action. Over our 110 years, we’ve seen children and young people join us to do good, give back, and contribute to building a future based on humanitarian principles.
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6 May 2025
Red Cross Shops – an evolving purpose but constant presence
For over a century, we’ve been a cornerstone of care and compassion, supporting communities through crises, emergencies, and moments of need. One of the ways we’ve done this is through our Red Cross Shops, which have been part of our income generation and volunteering opportunities since our inception.
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24 April 2025
Palmerston North Book Sale writes another chapter
A ‘save the date’ on the Manawatū calendar, the Palmerston North Book Sale over King’s Birthday Weekend is annual proof of how our members and branches are here for humanity.
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23 April 2025
Upholding humanity, wherever it may be found
Judy Owen is our longest-serving international delegate. For 40 years, she went into conflict zones with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to provide humanitarian relief to the victims of war.
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22 April 2025
The power of humanity
Peter Scott was an Outward Bound instructor studying business when he applied to be an international delegate in 1996. Now our Pacific Programmes Lead, his first assignment was to southern Sudan in 1999.
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