War and harsh living conditions in Syria have driven thousands of families into Jordan. In the Zaatari camp, which is the largest camp hosting Syrian refugees in Jordan, a large number of Syrians lack the means to stay in touch with their relatives in Syria or abroad. Through its tracing office and with the support […]
Jordan: Syrians call home Read More »
A simple 60-second video that helps explain how the familylinks.icrc.org website and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies can help families find a missing relative.
Red Cross and Red Crescent, restoring family links: animated video Read More »
Every year, millions of families become separated by war, disaster or migration. The Family Links website is one of the tools that the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement created in order to reconnect families. Thanks to this site, Zahra found her son after 8 years of separation. Are you looking for a family member?
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Since 2010, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department has been supporting a partnership between IFRC, CaLP and British Red Cross. The partnership seeks to use cash where it’s appropriate and to help ensure that the humanitarian community has the skills and knowledge needed for effective programming to deliver aid quickly and at-scale
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At the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Nepal presented this video which highlights disaster risk in Nepal and the working ongoing to reduce that risk.
Building Disaster Resilient Nepal Read More »
The eruption of Mount Sinabung on 15 September 2013 left 17 dead and more than 30,000 displaced from their homes. This video features recovery efforts via cash voucher distributions for victims of the Sinabung volcanic eruption.
Cash voucher for Victims of Sinabung Volcanic Eruption PMI & Australian Red Cross Read More »
On November 8, 2013 the strongest cyclone to ever hit land devastated the islands of the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Typhoon Yolanda, affected 16 million people, displaced 4.1 million people and took the lives of 6,300. Through the tireless work of the Philippine Red Cross and IFRC efforts (supported by American, British and
Philippines Typhoon Yolanda: Cash in Emergencies Read More »
Kate Chapman from the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) discusses mapping an entire country into OpenStreetMap for disaster preparedness.
Josh Campbell from the Humanitarian Information Unit at the US Department of State, discusses building a framework to support sharing high-resolution satellite imagery with the volunteer technical community, for improved disaster response and development projects. Crowdsourcing enables the humanitarian response community to have access to road maps being rapidly improved with updated, detailed information, demonstrated
ICCM 2012: Josh Campbell, Imagery to the Crowd Read More »
Dale Kunce, Senior Geospatial Engineer at the American Red Cross, discusses groundtruthing Open Street Map during disaster response.
ICCM 2014: Dale Kunce, Groundtruthing OSM During Disaster Reponse Read More »