In New Zealand

After engaging with Red Cross Pathways to Employment, accounting software company, Xero, decided to create two new positions specifically for former refugees in New Zealand.

Red Cross volunteers in Kaikoura are working to ensure the earthquake-affected community remains connected and strong as the region continues to recover from the 7.8 magnitude quake on 14 November 2016.

It's been a long journey for former refugee, Awo, to get where she is; now she's flourishing in a job found with support from Red Cross Pathways to Employment and The Warehouse.

Sayed Ali Karam Jawhary has been practising calligraphy for over 25 years, Communications advisor, Gemma Snowdon, went to find out more about how the art form has become part of his identity.

Community transport volunteer drivers are providing more than an essential transport service. They also offer a friendly ear to their passengers and their van is a safe environment for vulnerable people in the community.

Southlanders are putting up their hands to support and welcome people from refugee backgrounds, ahead of the first families arriving in Invercargill later this year.

New Zealand Red Cross is celebrating the contribution former refugees have made to their new communities this World Refugee Day and appealing for more to be done to address the global humanitarian crisis.

A new initiative in Wellington is connecting the community through food.

A father, poet, and teacher, Yousef Mazraeh is proud to call himself a Kiwi.

New Secretary General Niamh Lawless "eager to embark" on journey with Red Cross.

Bir Bahadur Poudels journey to New Zealand took 20-years, now he's keen on sharing his culture with his new neighbours.

Red Cross refugee support volunteer, Felicia Edgecombe, shares her experiences supporting the Vang family's resettlement.