Posted on November 19, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work…
[The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work…
[The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
A few months back, we wrote about how our office received a surprise visitor in the person of Diet Eman, a local WWII concentration camp survivor and former member of the Dutch Resistance. Diet stopped by again yesterday for a Lifesavers Tour, and we thought that you might all enjoy hearing more of her story.
This [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
Welcome to the Worldwide Weekly Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work…
[The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work…
[The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2009 by Cassidhe Hart
Two weeks ago, I was so ready.
I had made my to-do list, I had skimmed all the necessary demographic information, I had made arrangements at work and at home.
I was ready to go to American Samoa.
So were most of the other AmeriCorps in the office. We checked the news and Disaster Services Human Resource website [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work…
[The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2009 by Cassidhe Hart
Yesterday, I opened up my BBC news browser and found myself face to face with the news of the earthquake in Indonesia. The first thing I did was check the location of the earthquake. A dear friend of mine (affectionately called Duckie) lives in the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, on the island of Java. I discovered that the [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you…
[The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of the region.]
ASIA PACIFIC: The Red Cross Red Crescent is now responding to four near-simultaneous disasters [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2009 by Caroline Clunk
