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World Red Cross Red Crescent Day - selection of photos

27-04-2011 Photo gallery

The Movement's 13 million active volunteers do an outstanding job every day of the year. These volunteers are the power of humanity. They make the world a better place. In the run-up to 8 May, the ICRC has posted a selection of photos to say "thank you" and highlight the work of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers round the world.

  • Sallum border crossing between Libya and Egypt. Volunteers of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society hand out food to thousands of stranded migrants fleeing fighting in Libya.
    • Sallum border crossing between Libya and Egypt. Volunteers of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society hand out food to thousands of stranded migrants fleeing fighting in Libya.
      © ICRC / J. Björgvinsson / eg-e-00023

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  • Obo, Central African Republic. Volunteers from the Central African Red Cross Society help distribute emergency aid at a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of the town.
    • Obo, Central African Republic. Volunteers from the Central African Red Cross Society help distribute emergency aid at a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of the town.
      © ICRC / M. Kokic / cf-e-00320

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  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti. People left homeless by the earthquake queue at the ICRC office to collect relief supplies.
    • Port-au-Prince, Haiti. People left homeless by the earthquake queue at the ICRC office to collect relief supplies.
      © ICRC / M. Kokic / ht-e-00414

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  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Magen David Adom volunteer treats a patient in the Norwegian Rapid Deployment Field Hospital.
    • Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Magen David Adom volunteer treats a patient in the Norwegian Rapid Deployment Field Hospital.
      © ICRC / M. Kokic / ht-e-00512

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  • Osh, Kyrgyzstan. An employee of the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan hands out food parcels.
    • Osh, Kyrgyzstan. An employee of the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan hands out food parcels.
      © ICRC / M. Kokic / kg-e-00041

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  • Obo, Central African Republic. The Central African Red Cross Society distributes groundnuts, part of a three-truck delivery of hoes, groundnuts, groundnut seed, salt, oil and corn.
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  • Ajdabiya, Libya. An ICRC delegate and a Libyan Red Crescent volunteer talk to stranded Bangladeshis who had been working for a road cleaning firm before fighting broke out in Libya.
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  • Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Haitian National Red Cross Society volunteer provides first ai
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  • Safwan border crossing, Basra governorate, Iraq. Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff prepare coffins for handover from the Kuwaiti authorities to the Al Zubair Centre of the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights.
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  • Colombian Red Cross office, San José del Guaviare, Colombia. A Colombian Red Cross employee hands over a new cooking pot.
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  • Timbara village, Yambio, South Sudan. Lucas talks to a tracing volunteer from the Sudanese Red Crescent before being reunited with his daughter Jacky.
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