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Ugandan youth put eco-friendly future ‘in the bag’
Community Innovators with the Uganda Red Cross hope to make a big difference in young peoples’ lives with small, green enterprises
The conflict in Yemen claimed the lives of four more Movement workers in recent months. In late September, two Yemen Red Crescent Society volunteers, Qaed Faisal, 28, and Omar Fareh, 31, were killed along with other civilians during an airstrike in southern Yemen. “It is another tragic event for all of us in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement,” said Fuad Al-Makhazy, secretary general of the Yemen Red Crescent Society. “Since March, we have lost a total eight staff and volunteers in Yemen.”
The volunteers’ deaths came only three weeks after two staff members of the ICRC were shot and killed in Yemen as they travelled in a convoy between the cities of Saada and Sana’a. They worked as a field officer and as a driver. Both were from Yemen. “The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms what appears to have been the deliberate targeting of our staff,” said the head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen, Antoine Grand.
Community Innovators with the Uganda Red Cross hope to make a big difference in young peoples’ lives with small, green enterprises
Migrants often have a lot to be afraid of as they struggle to get by in new surroundings: Arrest. Deportation. Violence. Theft. But building and maintaining trust is possible, say experts. They share their advice in this short, selfie-style video.
From Ebola to disasters, the Ugandan Red Cross is used to responding to a wide range of crises. In western Uganda, for example, the Red Cross has been helping a growing number of people displaced by catastrophic yearly mudslides and floods.
As storms and floods become more extreme, weather forecasts trigger relief funding before disaster strikes, giving people time to prepare and potentially saving many more lives.
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