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.
20 May 2025
Helping young former refugees thrive
For young people from refugee backgrounds arriving in New Zealand, there's a lot to get used to. Uzma is one of our specialised settlement youth workers who helps former refugee rangatahi connect socially and thrive in their new environment.
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20 May 2025
Young people are the leaders of today
This Youth Week, we asked one of our newly elected young volunteer Area Councillors about what drew her to put herself forward for this role.
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19 May 2025
Delivering kindness – teen serves community during gap year
Just one day after turning 18, Grace Gunn did her first shift as a Meals on Wheels delivery driver. By eagerly stepping into the role as soon as she was eligible, she’s become one of our youngest Meals on Wheels volunteers.
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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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16 May 2025
Stepping up to help in emergencies
A university student based in Hamilton, Will Benefield's passion for helping others led him to join New Zealand Red Cross’ Disaster Welfare and Support Team (DWST) in 2024. His first deployment came soon after completing his training, in the aftermath of a devastating tornado in Mangawhai in January.
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