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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Legal challenges learned after Haiti earthquake
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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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Community Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA) is a Red Cross Red Crescent community-based approach that engages communities and their volunteers in the use simple tools adapted to local context to address the priority needs and to empower them to be in charge of their own development. The approach is a generic means to promote
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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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Reducing risk through law: the case of the Phillippines
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One of the main purposes of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies is to mobilize people and resources at community level to improve the lives of the vulnerable. In order to become locally sustainable, branches must expand the types of local resources and funds they get. This film describes successful activities to strengthen funds and
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Malaria: a community-based health approach in Timor-Leste
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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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Highlights of the 3rd day of the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in International Disaster Response Law and Volunteering in Emergencies