Huambo, Calomanda. Delivering a Red Cross message, 2002Rosalia receives a Red Cross message from her husband. This Angola Red Cross volunteer managed to find Rosalia only after an hour of looking door to door.
"At major aid distributions during the war, we explained to the people that they could send Red Cross messages to members of their families they had lost contact with. Within minutes we collected thousands of messages." Joachim Chinguto Saundi, ICRC staff member in Huambo
Since 2002, almost 230,000 Red Cross messages have been delivered and over 203,000 collected in the country, enabling thousands of people to find missing loved ones.
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