In New Zealand

Refugees arrive in Aotearoa New Zealand with a range of skills and lots of potential – one engineering company is working with New Zealand Red Cross to support people from refugee backgrounds into a career in engineering.

Instead of popping your spare change into a Red Cross bucket for their street appeal this year, you could be bidding to buy a year’s supply of chocolate, a bungy jump, or a power tool.   

New Zealand Red Cross disaster response teams were there for the people of Westport as they faced their homes flooding for the second time in seven months. Two team members reflect on their experience and on a weary but strong community standing up to help itself.

Well over a million dollars has been raised so far for the relief effort in Tonga and surrounding Pacific nations through New Zealand Red Cross’ Pacific Tsunami Appeal.

New Zealand Red Cross teams are on the ground in Westport and other centres on the West Coast assisting with welfare support and logistics, as residents face their second major flood in seven months.

We interviewed Kendra Roddis, one of our newest DWST recruits, to find out how DWST are trained and how she is feeling about her first deployment.

In January Masterton welcomed two new families from Pakistan — the first former refugees to settle in the town in decades.

On 20 January 2022 (NZT 6:08am) New Zealand Red Cross were advised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that on the morning of 18 January 2022, they learned the ICRC Central Tracing Agency systems had been exposed to a highly sophisticated Cyber Security incident and Personal Data Breach.

Amid the chaos of Kabul in August, Afghan pharmacist Zamir waited outside the airport wondering if he would ever safely make it out of Afghanistan to be with his fiancé on the other side of the world. Read about his courageous journey to a new life in Aotearoa New Zealand.  

With International Volunteer Day coming up on Sunday, New Zealand Red Cross Shops are putting a call out for hundreds more volunteers to help during the holiday season and beyond.

In the last six months, former refugees preparing to settle in Aotearoa New Zealand at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre have been offered a choice of new items of essential clothing donated by Hanes Australasia.   

The health and safety of our customers and our Red Cross people is our greatest priority.