Be a hero. Save lives
Neither a cape nor superpowers are needed to be a hero. First aid is for everyone, everywhere.
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Public Awareness and Public Education
Elearning: Community-Based Health and First Aid
The CBHFA elearning is presented as a set of four modules: Introduction, Volunteers action, Facilitation and Implementation. Anyone who is interested in community health can take one or all modules. No prerequisites are needed. The CBHFA elearning is free of charge. It allows you to work at your own pace. You get a certificate upon
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Building capacities: Community and branch development
Building Capacities: Best Practices in Asia Pacific (4/5) Red Cross and Red Crescent societies mobilize people at community level to improve the lives of the vulnerable. They achieve this by involving them in planning services that meet their own identified needs and building their long-term strengths to manage themselves. This film contains many examples of
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Building capacities: Gender & diversity in Asia and Pacific
Building Capacities: Best Practices in Asia Pacific (3/5) Red Cross and Red Crescent societies aim to mobilize as many diverse people at community level as possible to ensures equal voices and space for diverse groups in the community to share ideas and benefit from all services. Both women and men should enjoy equal representation and
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Irish Red Cross CBHFA Prison project | Prison inmate Ryan talks about HIV awareness in prisons
Ireland is the first country in the world to introduce Community Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA) in Action through groups of special status Irish Red Cross Volunteer Inmates in a prison setting. The programme operates under a partnership between the Irish Red Cross, Irish Prison Service and Education Training Boards (formally known as the
Paperclips Can Be Dangerous: Learn First Aid
Bill is one unlucky worker who finds himself with a paperclip stuck in his eye. Ouch! Learn First Aid with Red Cross: http://rcau.org/mT1Rd. Avoid a paperclip apocalypse! No one wants a fate like Bill’s. So, what will it take for you to learn First Aid? *Creative direction, script and animation by Monkeystack: http://www.monkeystack.com.au
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First Aid Saves Lives
Millions of people are hurt or killed by injuries every year due to inadequate response or lack of timely assistance. Taking immediate action and applying the appropriate techniques, while waiting for professional help, can considerably reduce deaths and injuries, and the impact of disasters and everyday emergencies. First aid is a humanitarian action that should
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Ebola: Fighting fear and stigmatization in Liberia
Volunteers of the Liberia Red Cross Society have been working tirelessly since the beginning of the outbreak. Red Cross teams are working to break the chain of transmission in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries with sustained and widespread transmission of the virus. The bodies of Ebola victims are highly infectious, and funeral preparations and
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Disaster Resilience Capacities
A paper presented to the Australia and New Zealand Disaster Management Conference in May 2014 on the development of four disaster resilience capacities: wellbeing, knowledge, security and connection. Aim of the paper: This paper suggests a number of disaster resilience capacities and the factors that contribute to them. These broad capacities have at their core an understanding of the
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Community Assessment and Engagement Tool
A basic tool designed for volunteers to determie where they will target their community preparedness activities
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