The French Red Cross “Parents-babies Areas” celebrate their 10th anniversary
The French Red Cross created the “Parents-babies Areas” 10 years ago, in order to help vulnerable families with young children from birth to 3 years of age. These areas are managed by volunteers and aim at meeting the specific difficulties encountered by vulnerable families (precariousness, social isolation, migratory experience, etc.) and at bringing material assistance for babies when necessary. Since 2006, 21 “Parents-babies Areas” have been created by the French Red Cross and have allowed helping 7000 persons in vulnerable situation.
Preparedness Plan for New Threats
November 2015 attacks opened a completely new chapter in first aid for the French Red Cross, because the organization had to response to several attacks at the same time, and because these attacks were lead with war weapons. Therefore the French Red Cross had to anticipate and to be prepared for potential other similar attacks. The Department of Emergency and First Aid developed a Preparedness Plan for New Threats, in order to meet the dual requirement of being able to response to potential other attacks in France, and of protecting the first-aider volunteers. The aim is to cover not only Paris but also 14 other major cities in France.
International Volunteer Day
The year 2016 has been marked by an increase in volunteers’ recruitment for the French Red Cross: more than 10 000 new volunteers joined the organization in one year. The French Red Cross highlighted this wave of solidarity during the International Volunteer Day and wants to go on promoting volunteering as a “school for citizenship”. Volunteering reinforces solidarity, but is also a way for each person of realizing his potential as an individual, taking responsibilities and acquiring skills. This is why the FRC supports all its volunteers and makes available for them more than 80 trainings.
The French Red Cross publishes an operational guide on fight against Ebola virus
In 2014 the French Red Cross strongly engaged to fight Ebola virus when the epidemic stroke Western Africa. The organization released in December 2016 an operational guide on fight against Ebola virus, which is the result of reflections and experiences of the FRC teams committed on the field and leading the project in the headquarters in Paris. The purpose of this guide is to be used for further reflection and to be a practical tool to help humanitarian workers who will deal with a new outbreak of Ebola or any other life threatening epidemic.
Promulgation of the law in favor of restoring family links
Restoring family links is one of the statutory missions of the French Red Cross, established by the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The aim is to reunite families who have been wrenched apart by conflicts, disasters and humanitarian crisis. The new law will facilitate administrative procedures and allow the FRC to access vital information and documents in order to look for persons on the national territory.
The French Red Cross, founded in 1864, is an independent charity working alongside governments and public authorities. As a key player in society, we provide humanitarian, health, social, welfare and training services. To help carry out our assignments we have a strong team of 18,000 employees and 56,000 volunteers, who on a daily basis, pursue consistent and unwavering charitable principles to provide local support and deliver tangible results and long-term solutions.
The French Red Cross thanks all the people who supported its action during the last month and year.
Please find below information about of our last activities:
Hurricane Matthew: the number of victims is increasing
The hurricane Matthew that stroke Haïti at the beginning of October is one of the most powerful hurricane of the past ten years. It killed at least 372 people, and more than 750 000 people now need humanitarian aid. The French Red Crossprovides assistance, in order to respond to the emergency, but also to build a long-term response: prevention responses and actions to fight the cholera epidemic, response to food insecurity. The French Red Cross’ regional emergency hub for the America-Caribbean zone brought 40 tons of emergency products (hygiene kits, shelter kits, etc.) in the country.
Caregivers’ national day
There are currently more than 8 million people of all ages in France who care for a close family member suffering of illness or disability on a daily basis. The French Red Cross signed an agreement with the French Association of Caregivers, in order to collectively contribute to develop actions in favor of caregivers, who play a major role in accompanying dependent persons. The objective of the collaboration is to develop initiatives that encourage the preservation of the relationship between the cared-for person and the caregiver, whatever the living environment, medical institution or home.
A military attack hampers the action of the Syrian Red Crescent
During the night of 19 to 20 September 2016, a humanitarian convoy carried by the UN and the Syrian Red Crescent, and a warehouse of Syrian Red Crescent were attacked in Orem Al Kubra, near Alep. About 20 civilians and a member of the Syrian Red Crescent were killed, while they were unloading trucks transporting humanitarian aid. This attack takes food aid and medical aid away from a thousand civilians. These attacks represent a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
Back-to-school season: a School supply bank to collect material for vulnerable families
Cultura corporate Foundation and French Red Cross associate to help vulnerable families, by giving to the children essential school material for starting the school year. Clients of Cultura (sales of cultural items and creative leisures) website can choose among a selection of 15 school material products (pen, copybook, ruler, etc.) and add one to their shopping cart, to participate to the School supply bank. French Red Cross volunteers will also be in store to ask the clients to mobilize for this cause. In 2015, the School supply bank has allowed to collect 28 tons of school material.
The French Red Cross « Summer Caravan » teaches you how to save lives
In July and August 2016, the French Red Cross « Summer Caravan » travels throughout France to offer free introduction to basic first aid, in a family and friendly environment. The Summer Caravan makes stopovers in 9 cities to meet, inform and initiate inhabitants and vacationer into first aid, into the use of an automatic defibrillator and into the right behavior to adopt in case of dangerous situation. Since its creation in 1999, the « Summer Caravan » allowed to introduce around 47 000 persons to life-saving techniques.
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The French Red Cross, founded in 1864, is an independent charity working alongside governments and public authorities. As a key player in society, we provide humanitarian, health, social, welfare and training services. To help carry out our assignments we have a strong team of 18,000 employees and 56,000 volunteers, who on a daily basis, pursue consistent and unwavering charitable principles to provide local support and deliver tangible results and long-term solutions.
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The French Red Cross thanks all the people who supported its action during the last months and year.
Please find below information about of our last activities:
The French Red Cross mobilized in Nice after the attack
A man driving a truck smashed into the crowd attending the festivities of the national holiday of July 14th in Nice on the Promenade des Anglais, killing 84 people and injuring many other.
The French Red Cross quickly intervened to organize the assistance and support of victims and their relatives. Two shelters were set up to take care of the latter. The French Red Cross has also been asked to reinforce the Crisis committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development set up to help victims.
Floods in France
A particularly significant rainfall event hit France in May 2016, causing flooding and exceptional rise in the level of rivers, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Nearly 300 volunteers from the French Red Cross mobilized to welcome, support and assist victims in thirteen French departments. They actively participated in setting up emergency shelters, in the reception of hundreds of highway motorists blocked on the road, and in helping the victims to clean their homes devastated by water and mud.
The French Red Cross launches an improved version of its First Aid mobile app
The free mobile application enables anyone to learn or refresh its knowledge on first aid, to be prepared for disasters and to learn with games. The app is made for all the people wanting know how to react in crisis situations and has been completely redesigned to offer more content and is displayed more clearly and intuitively. Since it’s been launched in 2011, the first version of the app has already been downloaded by nearly 600,000 users.
Bring water and sustainable sanitation in Niger
The French Red Cross and the Nigerian Red Cross have set up a program in 2012 to allow the population to access drinking water and sanitation in the Zinder region. The program contributes to improve access to water, basic sanitation and hygiene practices in Niger, a country located in the Sahel region. The French Red Cross and the Nigerian Red Cross constructed or rehabilitated 48 water points, 3000 household latrines, and 150 blocks of school latrines. They also raised awareness of hygiene and sanitation among the whole local population.
Find one’s lost family through the website “Trace the face”
The French Red Cross allows people who have been separated because of armed conflict, disaster or migration, to find themselves again, thanks to a global research network. The International Movement of the Red Cross set up the website "Trace the face", which is a database collecting photos of people looking for relatives. The website is translated in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Arabic), and gathers a thousand photos online. Twenty-eight countries currently participate in refugees’ research in Europe, in order to allow them to regain contact with their families.
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The French Red Cross, founded in 1864, is an independent charity working alongside governments and public authorities. As a key player in society, we provide humanitarian, health, social, welfare and training services. To help carry out our assignments we have a strong team of 18,000 employees and 56,000 volunteers, who on a daily basis, pursue consistent and unwavering charitable principles to provide local support and deliver tangible results and long-term solutions.
Links:
The French Red Cross thanks all the people who supported its action during the last month and year.
Please find below information about of our last activities :
Winter Plan in France :
Our teams of volunteers participate actively in the actions organized within the framework of the Winter Plan.
This plan is activated by every department when the weather conditions become extreme.
The social emergency medical service and the pilferings are strengthened:
- more volunteers, increase of the frequency and duration of the street tours.
- Transport of the people towards reception centers.
- Distribution of meals and hot drinks,blankets and warm clothes.
- Creation of places of hosting to complete the places of emergency housing in insufficient number to welcome all the people in the street, during the activation of the winter plan,
- additional places are opened in every department
Fight against malnutrition in Sahel
Committed since 2012 to the side of the Mali Red Cross in the Kayes region of Mali , the French Red Cross has supported the management of more than 33 000 children under five suffering from malnutrition.
After four years, our work has helped establishing a community screening device and in quality care, to support the health system in 77 health facilities in the districts of Kayes and Yélimané. More than 1 000 volunteers from the Malian Red Cross were mobilized in support of communities, and more than 200 agents of the health system could benefit from a quality support through the expertise of the delegates of the French Red Cross.
Ukraine: departure of a humanitarian convoy
Violent clashes and political crisis that shook the country, adds a major economic crisis, which intensified the precariousness in which Ukrainian living. Facing this situation, our association is committed to assist the affected population : a humanitarian convoy left France on February 25th.
150 refugees welcomed in Roissy Airport (Paris)
The French Red Cross participated on Monday, March 7 on welcoming the refugees at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, where 150 refugees arrived in the morning. They are welcomed in France as part of the European relocation of asylum seekers program.
The refugees were taken to buses that would take them to centers for asylum seekers in the Jura, Haute-Saône, Gironde, Charente-Maritime and in the north.
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The French Red Cross, founded in 1864, is an independent charity working alongside governments and public authorities. As a key player in society, we provide humanitarian, health, social, welfare and training services. To help carry out our assignments we have a strong team of 18,000 employees and 56,000 volunteers, who on a daily basis, pursue consistent and unwavering charitable principles to provide local support and deliver tangible results and long-term solutions.
Thank you
The French Red Cross wishes to thank all of those who showed their support for the victims of the November 13th attacks. The generous donations that we received will fund our priority actions including essential first aid and psychological support for those in needs.
Solidarity within our international movement was also present. Many Red Cross' national societies have informed us of their full support and proposed reinforcements in volunteers and material at the time of the attacks.
We also want to thank the French people who, through social networks, in the blood donation facilities, hospitals and on the streets showed their great solidarity.
"For 150 years, the French Red Cross has managed to weave a unique and strong link with the French people through crisis situations, but also thanks to his daily presence among the most vulnerable. This historic anchor associated with the ideal of humanity and solidarity that we embody, makes our identity, our strength and our difference!
Today we must continue our efforts and develop our actions to improve our response to the growing needs of the people we assist. Through the dedication and commitment of our volunteers and employees, hundreds of thousands of people are heard, directed, supported and cared throughout their life course.
In a world shaken by crises, in which social inequalities continue to widen our role and responsibilities are more important than ever. For 150 years, and for the coming years, the French Red Cross intends to fight against all forms of suffering, with a loud and clear message of commitment, humanity, hope and brotherhood."
Jean-Jacques Eledjam, President
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