Stories from the field

An update on the swift, locally-led response, delivering essential goods and support.

Six months after devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, Red Cross continues to support people on the road to recovery.

On the ground after devastating earthquakes.

“In an emergency, the people best placed to help are already there.”

12-month Impact Report.

Behind the staggeringly high numbers are real people – men, women and children battling death-level hunger every day.

Our 9-month Impact Report.

We’ve supported our colleagues at the Malaysian Red Crescent Society to deliver COVID-19 vaccinations.

Operations Manager Jeff Barnard shares how the islands are staying safe.

Volunteer coordinator Amin Taumoefolau shares his story.

What I saw when Kabul fell will never leave me.

Red Cross teams are helping people in Fiji stay safe and start to rebuild. 7 January 2021 Last month, Cyclone Yasa battered Fiji with intense winds, storm surges and flooding.

6 August 2020 Our colleagues at Lebanese Red Cross are on the ground responding to an enormous explosion that destroyed the port of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon on August 4.

When a deadly measles outbreak hit Samoa, Red Cross volunteers were on the frontline supporting the community and helping stop the disease from spreading further.

When Tropical Cyclone Harold hit Vanuatu, Red Cross volunteers hiked along clifftops and traversed overflowing creeks to help remote and hard-to-reach communities.

Renewed fighting in the country’s North-West is a stark reminder that the conflict is far from over.

The scene is like a real-life version of M*A*S*H. In a makeshift medical facility in South Sudan, Kieren Box and other aid workers are called to fly to a wedding that has turned into a gunfight.

Anniversaries matter. Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries of the death of loved ones have a deep resonance for most of us.

Trudging through muddy tracks in the monsoon rains to relief distribution sites, dilapidated bamboo retaining walls hold up precarious slopes of clay.

A group of Australian Red Cross nurses have earned the highest international distinction a nurse can ever receive.

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake has devastated Papua New Guinea, with parts of the country now in a state of emergency.

The Australian aid worker who heads up the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent operations in Syria reflects on a brutal eight-year long war.

Taikivu’s roof was ripped off in the cyclone, but his family has a dry place to sleep tonight. Cyclone Gita is one of the strongest tropical cyclones to ever hit Tonga.

Sam Cleary, a water and sanitation engineer and Red Cross aid worker, shares this story of life in the refugee camps on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.