Lost and displaced: Families in Bangladesh look for answers
… successful calls were facilitated between the family members. Moreover, the teams have been trained on other restoring family links tools which will be used to trace family …
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Focus on the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel
… building programmes, visiting prisons, restoring family links between those who have been separated by …
Rakhine, Myanmar crisis: Lives shattered, needs urgent
… separated from their families and loved ones. Restoring these family links will be crucial. CC BY-NC-ND /Sheikh …
Ethiopia: Cries of joy after abducted child reunites with parents
… they would see their son again. But this family's story has a happy ending. After the … part of the ICRC team that reunites separated family members. Extreme joy overtook both … The ICRC strives to restore family links (RFL) between members separated by …
Rwanda: Helping Burundian refugees reconnect with their families
… began in April 2015. As part of the ICRC's Restoring Family Links programme in the Great Lakes region, the …
How to use social media to engage with people affected by crisis
… and messaging apps help maintain contact with family and friends, and provide access to … and volunteers to send you relevant links they may come across online. CC Create … Only insiders use technical terms such as “restoring family links” on social media. …
Jordan: First regional meeting on restoring family links
… Amman (ICRC): A two-day regional meeting on Restoring Family Links began in Amman on Wednesday. It was …
Exhibition on urban warfare and its impact on the civilian population
… had stopped as they brought relief or family news to survivors. The request was … soon as they can. Returning home is a way of restoring their identity. But it depends on … suffering of their families, particularly by restoring communication between detainees and …
Neutral and impartial Red Cross work in Venezuela
… tasks but work together. Like members of a family, they sometimes rely on each other to … disasters, community first-aid training and restoring family links, to health-related educational days and …
Policy paper: Missing migrants
… For every missing migrant, there is a family living in uncertainty ‒ not knowing if … in which migrants go missing; •• forge links with authorities, other relevant … missing, with the humanitarian purpose of restoring contact between family members. The …
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