Remote village of Sathighar, 4 hours North of Katmandu. Almost all the house have been destroyed after the earthquake. Eleven people were killed and many were injured along with hundreds of livestock buried alive.
The team from Nepal Red Cross was the first to reach the village since the earthquake struck.
Following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit central Nepal, thousands of people have been living outdoors, fearful of returning to their homes. The Nepal Red Cross has been distributing tarpaulins across Kathmandu to provide families with emergency shelter.
(Photos by Palani Mohan for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
Rescued African migrants play football with Tunisian Red Crescent volunteers in front of a former chicken farm, newly refurbished into a dormitory. Tunisian Red Crescent volunteers provide numerous services for migrants saved from shipwrecked vessels. They’ve also faced the task of burying the remains of migrants drowned in their attempt to reach Europe. Photo: Tatu Blomqvist/Finnish Red Cross
La fumigación es un elemento importante en los esfuerzos encaminados a la erradicación del mosquito que transmite el virus del Zika. Un voluntario de la Cruz Roja del Salvador fumiga una vivienda para eliminar los mosquitos y evitar que se reproduzcan. Fotografía: Cruz Roja del Salvador
To get the Zika-prevention message out, volunteers of the Colombian Red Cross Society go where the people are: bus and train stations, intersections on busy streets, shopping malls and markets, even inside city buses. Colombia has reported more than 3,000 cases of the disease since the beginning of the year. The volunteers answer people’s questions — “Can our children still play outside?” is a common one — and they share information about how to use bednets, as well as how to stop mosquitos from breeding. Photo: Colombian Red Cross Society
Dadaab, Kenya, September 2014. The IFRC Secretary General visits the gardens setup by the Kenya Red Cross to provide food to the local staff but also provide livelihood to the communities.
Mrs Yomoko Izawa enjoys flower arrangement activities at an event organized by the JRCS Fukushima branch for the elderly living in the Minamiyanome temporary housing compound.
