ICRC in Myanmar: Looking back at 2021
This three-year-old from Myitkyina, Kachin State was born with a lower limb deficiency. He was able to get a replacement for his prosthetic leg at the Myitkyina Physical Rehabilitation Centre, which …
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A blooming business in Donbas: A family grows flowers at the contact line
For more than six years, the Yasynskys have lived off the flowers grown a mere few hundred meters from the front line. The science of flower farming had to be mastered from scratch in extreme …
Remembering Diomède Nzobambona, a caring mentor, leader and innovator
On Sunday, August 22, Diomède was walking in the streets of Bamenda, in Cameroon, when he was attacked by armed men in the middle of the afternoon. He succumbed to his injuries the next day. While in …
Amid transition in Afghanistan, ICRC’s orthopaedic centres continue to assist
… "Patients are coming, and we are doing some jobs, all the services that cannot be …
Prisons, migration and use of force: important topics for Colombia
Annual report 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenges in many areas, such as health management inside the country's prisons and the humanitarian consequences of migration. Likewise, it …
Gaza: Each day is a struggle for hope
Mohammed Nassar, 22, is a young photographer and Information Technology graduate from Gaza. "Finding a job for a fresh graduate in Gaza is almost a mission impossible. I don't want to be a burden to …
Lebanon: How Samir’s life was injected with health and happiness
In July 2018, Samir arrived at the emergency room of Rafik Hariri University Hospital (RHUH) with an unbearable abdominal pain. Unable to afford treatment, the Palestinian refugee from Syria, would …
Kenya: Cash donation helps family fight drought
… of great need. Mohammed's father does odd jobs to support his family but often cannot …
Nigeria: After six years, three siblings find their way home
Despite a long journey and ongoing armed conflict, Kaltum and her siblings were able to stick together and work alongside Nigerian Red Cross volunteers to find their way back to the family they’d …
Erbil: A new glimpse of hope, ICRC opens the largest Physical Rehabilitation Centre in Iraq
15-03-2022 On 15 March 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formally opened its new Physical Rehabilitation Centre in Erbil, north of Iraq. The 14,630 sqm compound is the largest …
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