©InfoBroadcaster Michael Buerk is a long-standing supporter of the Red Cross. His interview with Red Cross nurse Claire Bertschinger while reporting on the famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s for the BBC helped spark Live Aid.
He has a detailed knowledge of Red Cross work both in the UK and overseas.
Michael supports a number of fundraising events and makes speeches on behalf of the Red Cross each year.
In support of our Civilians in Conflict game Traces of Hope, Michael said:
"This is a game, but not a game… a fiction that reflects a terrible truth. There are hundreds of thousands of refugees in the troubled parts of this world, impoverished, many hungry, frequently desperate. They call them “displaced” but that does not begin to describe the misery of those pushed out of their homes, separated from family and friends and nearly everything that makes life living. Reuniting those who are lost in this way, helping them put their lives back together, is a huge task for the Red Cross. You can get a flavour of it online – a game for us, but a glimpse of reality as it is lived by the unlucky of the world... an insight, too, into what organisations like the Red Cross are doing to bind up the wounds of the world."
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