Ukraine: Baking bread for displaced people
Lubov Vasilievna fled her home town of Pervomaisk for the safety of Severodonetsk. Now she is part of a Red Cross team distributing bread to others who, like her, have had to leave their homes to …
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Economic Security
… in the infrastructure that supports people’s jobs and livelihoods, such as functioning …
Sudan: Musa’s Journey of Resilience and Recovery
JUBA (ICRC) – When 32-year-old Musa Ali Musa arrived at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – supported Physical Rehabilitation Center (PRC) in Juba on 24th March 2025, he was …
Ukraine: The smoke from the stove unites families
… like me – not yet pensioners but also without jobs," says Viktor. The villagers try to …
'They die unnoticed.' Medical crisis grows in South Sudan
The 17-year-old would have been the mother of twins. Nyandieng's first child was delivered at the family's simple mud and straw home. But complications prevented the second twin's birth. Seeking …
DR Congo : the ongoing emergency in Rutshuru
… no means of subsistence. Many have taken on jobs as day labourers. However, this kind of …
Born on a beach: A Red Cross midwife on life in Myanmar
Olivia Hill has worked in numerous humanitarian emergencies across the world. The British midwife has just finished a year long mission with the ICRC in Myanmar and looks back on her time in the …
Eritrea: Facts and Figures 2013
… enable them to apply for further studies or jobs, Eritrean and Ethiopian nationals had …
Ethiopia: Humanitarian crisis fuels hardship for people with disabilities in Afar
The humanitarian needs in Afar are huge. Many people living with disabilities do not have access to medical services. Getachew Gesese sits on a cemented edge of a flower bed, under a flagpole in …
Health care in South Sudan: Beating the odds
Decades of violence in South Sudan have shattered hopes for a functional medical system. The Waat Primary Health Care Center we support was originally supposed to provide services to some 45,000 …
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