British Red Cross: Recent Episodes
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Three Red Cross aid convoys have delivered food, water and health care to Syrian people in the beseiged towns of Madaya, Kefraya and Foua.
The convoys arrived in the three areas on Monday (11 January). It was a joint operation between the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the United Nations.
In this audio diary, ICRC spokesperson Pawel Krzysiek says conditions in Madaya are heartbreaking.
Syria #Madaya #RedCross
Find out more about our work in Syria: visit redcross.org.uk and search for 'Syria'.
Yemen is a country in turmoil.
Conflict has affected more than one million people and the country has been hit by two cyclones in recent weeks.
In this podcast, Michael Van Koesveld, British Red Cross country manager for Yemen, talks about the challenges facing the country.
Find out more about our work in Yemen. Visit redcross.org.uk and search for 'Yemen'.
The Nyarugusu refugee camp in #Tanzania was built in 1997 to house 50,000 people.
Today, it's home to more than 144,000 people.
Its population has swelled with the recent influx of #refugees from neighbouring #Burundi, where violence has forced thousands to flee.
British Red Cross aid worker Kenny Hamilton has just returned from Tanzania and says the situation in the camp is hugely concerning.
Gulawi’s friends took their own lives, after claiming #asylum in the UK. He says it was down to their treatment. He now has strong feelings on how to make the world better – starting with kindness, compassion, and really knowing all the #refugee facts.
Photo by IFRC / Damien Fulton Naylor.
Liberia has been declared free of #Ebola, while the number of cases in Sierra Leone and Guinea continue to drop. But as our Ebola manager Pete Jones explains, getting to zero cases doesn’t mean our work is done.
The media often mix up the terms ‘immigrant’, ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’ – but they’re not the same thing. Listen to our quick guide to find out what the terms actually mean.
Tamba saw his colleagues executed on live TV in Nigeria – he had to flee for his life. What happened next is a story of fear, corruption, lost documents and sleeping rough on the streets.
asylumseeker #asylum #refugees #migration #factsnotfear #getthestorystraight
Photo by Bob Collier