New Zealand Red Cross Updates

New Zealand Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal to raise funds for Myanmar after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the centre of the country on 28 March. Secretary General Sarah...

New Zealand Red Cross is deploying two International Delegates to assist Vanuatu Red Cross following the recent earthquake. The delegates are experienced members of New Zealand Red Cross’s...

Two years since the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict, fighting and shelling are still everyday realities for millions of people living in Ukraine. The scale of destruction is immense...

In early November, our international delegate Natalie Gyles boarded a flight bound for Vanuatu with four satellite phones that will make a critical difference to communities impacted by Cyclone Lola. ...

Viv Euini, our Director of International Operations, has a busy schedule building relationships and creating understanding about our international humanitarian role. In late September, she...

Dallas Roy, an operations management specialist with many years' experience working in disaster zones, has returned to Ankara, Türkiye. His second mission will focus on supporting recovery for the...

Fahim Mazuri wasn’t emotionally prepared to leave Afghanistan when he boarded a New Zealand-bound flight in March last year. Today we mark World Refugee Day. We pay tribute to the millions of...

International delegate Dallas Roy has made his first visit to southeastern Türkiye, in the area devastated by earthquakes two months ago. Fourteen million people have been directly affected, nine...

Our Emergency Response Unit’s IT and Telecommunications (IT and T) team has returned from Vanuatu after successfully restoring power, internet and phone networks across the country for Vanuatu Red...

Three of our specialist IT & Telecommunications International Delegates have flown to Vanuatu to help with the response following two cyclones and an earthquake. Eighty percent of Vanuatu's...

Red Cross cash assistance is providing much needed support to the people of Ukraine affected by conflict. February 24, marks one year since the escalation of the conflict, and people have endured...

Tongan communities know first-hand what it’s like to live through a terrifying event, unable to access medical facilities. Now, as they recover from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano eruption and...

New Zealand Red Cross international delegate and security expert John Dyer has just returned from a five-week deployment to Ukraine. He was based in Western Ukraine where he saw a different view of...

New Zealand Red Cross has packed the first relief supplies to be sent to Tonga tomorrow and is gathering four technical experts to support the ongoing response. After a thorough needs assessment,...

The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai underwater volcano near Tonga erupted on 15 January 2022. The Tongan Red Cross has not yet made a formal request to the Red Cross Movement for assistance with the...

It’s the little things that can make a big difference — and if you’re a former refugee arriving in a new home country, that might just be a fresh pair of socks or a warm new hoodie. In the last six...

An outpouring of global support has given lifesaving resources to Indian Red Cross as it continues to work closely with authorities to provide care and relief to the most vulnerable. India is...

The plan to settle 210 people is a promising start and New Zealand Red Cross is hopeful the Government will now prioritise meeting its policy of settling 1,500 people annually. Wellington, New...

Seven New Zealand Red Cross health delegates are in Samoa supporting measles treatment and prevention activities, as the number of people suspected to have contracted this disease in the Pacific...

Heads are huddled closely around a map of the Pacific as a group of skilled Red Cross disaster responders discuss what to do after a fictional earthquake strikes a remote island off the coast of...