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Six-month-old Issa being assessed as malnourished

Hadjatous story

Hadjatou cradles her six-month-old son after learning from a Red Cross nurse that her baby is acutely malnourished.

House with damaged roof

Hurricane Ivan 2004

The Caribbean was hit by a number of powerful hurricanes and tropical storms in September 2004. Our delegates helped with the relief and recovery operations.

Old couple homeless in southern Java.

Indonesia earthquake 2006

An earthquake struck the island of Java, killing 5,749 people and injuring more than 38,000. We helped with the logistics of the relief effort.

A woman washing clothes surrounded by rubble

Iran earthquake 2003

On 26 December 2003, a major earthquake struck the city of Bam in Iran. Around 26,000 people lost their lives and 30,000 were injured.

Mother and child with bandages on their heads

Italy Earthquake Appeal 2009

Find out how the Red Cross responded to the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila, central Italy, which killed around 290 people and left around 28,000 homeless.

Kadiatou Konnare with one of her children

Kadiatous story feeding my children scraps of food

Kadiatou Konnare is facing a more daunting struggle to feed her seven children than most people will ever know.

Two emergency response volunteers with ambulance

London bombings 2005

Find out how we helped people after the terrorist attack in London on 7 July 2005, from providing ambulances and volunteers, to setting up a support line.

N’faly Traore

Nfalys story soon people will have nothing to eat

"In 12 years volunteering for the Red Cross I have never seen a catastrophe like the current food crisis here in the Sahel region of Mali."

Vegetables Oroukia grows through the Red Cross project are helping keep her family from the brink of starvation

Oroukias story oasis of hope in the Sahel

Oroukia Boulo and her husband have seven children. Instead of being able to fill their three granaries after harvesting their cereal crops this year, they couldn’t even fill one.

Ouilimatou in his grandmother's lap

Ouilimatous story young and hungry

As Ouilimatou lies, listless, in his grandmother’s lap he does not look like a child who is nearly two years old.

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