A collection of treasured items telling part of New Zealand Red Cross’ history has found a permanent home at Te Papa Tongarewa | Museum of New Zealand, where they will be cared for and preserved for generations to come.

Three months on, a state of emergency remains in effect in quake hit areas of Venezuela as thousands of displaced families continue sheltering outdoors or in temporary reception centres. The emergency response has now transitioned into a structured 24-month recovery operation and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Venezuelan Red Cross have identified three critical focus areas: primary healthcare, mental health care, and access to safe drinking water.

What makes a warm Kiwi welcome? It's having someone alongside you when everything is brand new.

Every year around 1,000 former refugees arrive in New Zealand with courage, skill and big dreams – families like Elie Zagabe, his wife Irene and their four children. New Zealand Red Cross volunteers are on hand when they arrive to connect families to a medical centre, the nearby school, provide some essential household goods, and even tips on navigating local neighbourhoods and public transport – everything you need to help you settle into a new home.

Mud, quicksand and despair are all that’s left of many villages along the Trishuli River in Nepal’s Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts. One month on from the devastating flash flood that tore through the region, Nepal Red Cross Society, supported by IFRC, has been working tirelessly to airlift food to remote communities, install water tanks to supply safe drinking water and set up field clinics to treat as many patients as it can every day.

Nearly two months on, communities in quake-ravaged western Colombia are slowly rebuilding shattered lives helped by global support from Red Cross societies, including New Zealand Red Cross.