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Following the large explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, affecting thousands of people and causing significant damage across the city, the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement has been providing life-saving services. 

A group of young people in Dunedin is leading the way – every week, the teenagers learn practical skills to look after their own community in an emergency or a disaster. 

A New Zealand Red Cross grant for schoolchildren affected by the November 2016 earthquake has allowed Amberley School pupils to take part in activities – from camps to kapa haka – to build resilience and positivity.

Get to know Campbell, a dedicated Area Councillor and Disaster Welfare and Support Team member who has been responding to emergencies as part of Red Cross for ten years.

Community Energy Action, with support from Red Cross, has offered financial assistance to help people make their homes warmer and more energy efficient while they undertake earthquake repairs.

It's an Autumn day at Seddon School and the students of Room Nine are learning what do in an emergency with a little help from Red Cross and a picture book called 'Kiri and the Emergency'. 

Experiencing the 2011 Christchurch earthquake had a big impact on then teenager Tayla Cadigan. Now 21, the tough times she went through after the earthquake have prompted her to join Red Cross as a Disaster Welfare and Support volunteer and to help out in quake-shaken Kaikoura.

Red Cross is encouraging people to send help, not high heels and handbags, to countries hit by natural disasters.

Dick Frizzell gifted New Zealand Red Cross with limited edition prints, titled ‘7 Mins’, to support our November Earthquake Appeal. Prints are available for purchased.

New Zealand Red Cross continues to support people affected by last months earthquake throughout the Marlborough region.

More than a fortnight after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit central New Zealand, thousands of people remain cut off and in need of basic supplies.

More than 3,000 people in Havelock North have been struck down with a gastroenteritis bug after the town water supply was contaminated. Red Cross Disaster Welfare and Support Team volunteers are on the ground helping out residents.