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Kiwi nurse Fiona Blair reflects on her work in Bangladesh, where more than 655,000 people fleeing violence in Myanmar are now living in makeshift camps.
New Zealand Red Cross is sending more aid workers to help in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence in Myanmar are living in makeshift camps.
New Zealand Red Cross aid workers are helping those affected by the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now – the influx of people into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar.
Red Cross is providing food, water, shelter and medical treatment to hundreds of thousands of people living in makeshift border camps after fleeing violence in Myanmar.
More than 1,800 Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers are supporting the response to devastating monsoon flooding across India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
The stone roof and walls crashed down on all the family’s belongings – including their food. All their farming tools and seeds were buried. They had literally no food left and no way of earning any money from their usual farming work.
Today, one year on from the strongest typhoon to ever make landfall, Irene, now known as the ‘bucko shack lady’, and her family have bounced back with their own thriving small business selling fresh coconut juice.
Rosemarie North writes from Nepal about the resilience and immaculate presentation of the people she's met; while reflecting on how the Nepali people are coping in the lead-up to winter.
Three months after the devastating earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people still require humanitarian assistance in order to meet their basic needs
Getting aid to the people that need it most is always a challenge after a disaster writes Graeme, our aid worker in Nepal.
Mike Carson spent the morning of 25 June 2015 as part of a New Zealand Red Cross team making sure Whanganui people whose houses were flooded had somewhere to stay. Then the Whanganui man flew to Nepal to join the Red Cross team helping after two major earthquakes.
Thomas has spent the last four weeks in Nepal as part of the emergency response unit following the devastating 7.8 earthquake. Here's a behind the scenes look at the work Thomas and the team have been doing to get communications systems up and running.
