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Even if you can't be there, you have the power to help

Your kindness has helped our volunteers to be there for people when they need them the most  – whether it’s with a food or medicine delivery to someone who is isolating, or in the aftermath of an emergency

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Our work in 2020

This is what your kindness has done this year

From delivering food and medicine to comforting someone in a crisis

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Maggie looks at a picture in her home

Emergencies beyond the pandemic: Maggie and Barry's story

Emergency response volunteer Julia was on hand after a fire in the couple's home

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Graham's story

Lonely in isolation: how Graham found support in a pandemic

Just out of hospital as lockdown began, Graham found support when he needed it

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Paul and Bridget

Life after coronavirus: Paul's road to recovery

By British Red Cross

Paul's recovery from coronavirus included regaining the confidence to go for a walk. Emergency response volunteer Bridget was on hand to help. 

 

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Helping in some of the world's biggest emergencies

The humanitarian crisis in Yemen

What is happening in Yemen?

Amid the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, the people of Yemen now face the threat of coronavirus

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Coronavirus: Six months on

The coronavirus pandemic: our work so far

Our volunteers and staff are supporting the most vulnerable people in the UK and abroad

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Conflict and coronavirus in Syria: what can be done?

Find out more about one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises

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Help if you're feeling lonely

lonely young person

Let's talk about loneliness: part one

Loren, our young volunteer, answers other young people's questions about loneliness.

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lonely young person

Let's talk about loneliness: part two

Part two of Loren's answers to young people's questions around loneliness.

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How to listen with kindness

How to listen with kindness

Tips from our coronavirus support line staff and volunteers

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Beirut: one month on

The explosion in Beirut: one month on

By British Red Cross

The city is beginning to rebuild, but there will be a long road ahead

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Voices from Beirut

Tala's story

“I really didn’t believe it could happen in Lebanon – or anywhere”

British Red Cross volunteer Tala, who is from Lebanon, talks about the moment she learned of the explosion in Beirut

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Beirut recovery efforts

Beirut explosion: "So many people are now without a home"

Red Cross staff member Siel on how the city has responded

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A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance crew

Beirut explosion: “Trees in my street were ripped from the ground”

One Red Cross delegate on the aftermath of the explosion in Beirut

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A sign in a window in support of the NHS

Coronavirus: everything we're doing to support our NHS

By British Red Cross

We have been supporting NHS healthcare workers wherever possible, while adapting many of our services. We're helping people in over 100 hospitals be discharged safely, and over 70,000 people have shared their kindness to become community reserve volunteers

How we're helping the NHS

Our 150-year legacy

Florence Nightingale

The legacy of Florence Nightingale, the first professional nurse

Her influence is still felt more than a century after her death

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A photograph of Dr John Alcindor.

The famous Black doctor of Paddington

A doctor who overcame prejudice to help others during the First World War finally won recognition a hundred years later.

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Two police officers and two other men lift cardboard boxes into the back of a van at the time of the mining disaster in Aberfan.

Memories of a Red Cross volunteer at Aberfan

John Cole was one of hundreds of British Red Cross volunteers who helped the local community in Aberfan. Now, his daughter Anna shares his story.

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Your kindness is powerful

Even if you can't be there right now, you have the power to help someone in need.

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