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PSA: Wildfires can spread quickly, forcing your family and even your whole community to evacuate in a hurry.
Here’s how you can be ready:
🎒Make a personalized emergency kit
📝 Have an emergency plan
📲 Stay informed by monitoring the weather and listening to local authorities
You can help Canadians impacted by wildfires by donating to our Canadian Wildfire Fund: give.redcross.ca/page/24CWFA
Funds may be used to address preparedness, immediate relief, and longer-term recovery for wildfire events within Canada.
News Release: Canadian Red Cross provides funding to support firefighting and FireSmart programming in @RMWoodBuffalo
Learn more: brnw.ch/21x2Q9O
The Tumbler Ridge Tragedy Appeal will support those affected by the devastating events of the past week. 100% of the money raised will be used to help meet the needs and address the impacts on individuals, families, and communities. give.redcross.ca/page/26TRTA…
We’re proud to sponsor tonight’s @EdmontonOilers game as part of our ongoing commitment to communities impacted by wildfires.❤️🏒 #LetsGoOilers
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Thank you to the Government of Canada (@CanadaDev) for their continued support of our response to Hurricane Melissa.
In 1988, when Hurricane Gilbert hit Jamaica, Canada was the first to send the @jamaicaredcross supplies, now Canadians have stepped up again in the wake of Hurricane Melissa.
You can count on Canada to be a partner in delivering emergency relief to help those hit the hardest.
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⛈️ Storms can hit unexpectedly. Be prepared for power outages:
💡Listen to local news
💡Have at least 3 days of emergency supplies available
💡Keep your gas tank at least half full
💡Ensure your flashlight has working batteries
Stay safe: redcross.ca/how-we-help/emer…
A 'weather bomb' is bringing strong wind gusts, coastal flood warnings, and heavy rain. The peak low will reach minimum pressure Tuesday evening and cross the province at a record-breaking deep pressure for November.
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Thank you to @CanadaDev for their continued support to emergencies through the Emergency Disaster Assistance Fund.
An outbreak of #Ebola was declared in #DRC and swift action is needed to help people affected and contain the spread of the disease. Canada is providing funding to @MSF_canada and @IFRC via @redcrosscanada to strengthen the response to this outbreak.
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In Miramar, Colón, the Panamanian Red Cross [@cruzrojapanama / @IFRC_es] is strengthening their prevention and response initiatives to respond to sexual and gender-based violence.
📸: Panamanian Red Cross
Thank you to @CanadaDev for their support to the Venezuela floods response.
(1/2) Severe floods & landslides in #Venezuela have affected 24,000+ people & damaged many homes. To help meet urgent needs, Canada has sent 1,000 mosquito nets & 500 kitchen sets with @redcrosscanada & supports relief as a donor to the @IFRC Disaster Response Emergency Fund.
ALT A Canadian Red Cross employee drives a forklift bearing a pallet of humanitarian aid supplies bearing the Canada wordmark through a warehouse facility. Other similar boxes can be seen on the surrounding shelves and in the foreground.
ALT The contents of a kitchen set are displayed on a table in a warehouse. The Canada wordmark can be seen on a box in the background.
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Thank you to the Government of Canada ( @CanadaDev ) for supporting humanitarian assistance to people on the move in Central America.
We remain deeply concerned about the humanitarian consequences of ongoing military operations in Gaza, which continue to displace civilians enduring extreme hunger and the devastating toll of 21 months of conflict.
We applaud Canada using its voice to demand that assistance reaches starving civilians. Now, immediate action is needed. Aid delivery must be restored and humanitarian actors such as PRCS need to be able to do their job safely and efficiently. Our collective humanity is at stake.
Canada condemns the Israeli government’s failure to prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
Israel’s control of aid distribution must be replaced by comprehensive provision of humanitarian assistance led by international organizations. Many of these are holding significant Canadian-funded aid which has been blocked from delivery to starving civilians. This denial of humanitarian aid is a violation of international law.
Canada calls on all sides to negotiate an immediate ceasefire in good faith. We reiterate our calls for Hamas to immediately release all the hostages, and for the Israeli government to respect the territorial integrity of the West Bank and Gaza.
Canada supports a two-state solution which guarantees peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians. Canada will work intensively in all fora to further that end, including through the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN High-Level Conference on a Two-State Solution in New York next week.
The Canadian Red Cross is shocked and saddened to learn about the killing of Haitham Bassam Abu Issa, a Palestine Red Crescent Society nurse in Gaza, and send our deepest condolences to his loved ones. Humanitarians are not a target.
We mourn the killing of another @PalestineRCS colleague in Gaza. This brings the total number of PRCS staff & volunteers killed during the conflict to 50 - both on and off duty.
We reiterate our calls: Civilians & humanitarians must be protected.
There are no excuses.
Iranian Red Crescent Society teams are tirelessly responding to the humanitarian needs arising from the recent escalation of hostilities. They are conducting search & rescue, providing emergency shelter, medical support & psychosocial support.
📷: Iranian Red Crescent Society
Magen David Adom teams are providing vital support to people impacted by the recent escalation of hostilities. They are providing ambulance services, search and rescue, and transferring patients with intensive care buses.
📷: Magen David Adom
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Wildfires and smoke have resulted in the evacuation of several communities in Manitoba. The Canadian Red Cross has opened the 2025 Manitoba Wildfires Appeal to help people and communities impacted by wildfires in the province. You can donate now: give.redcross.ca/page/25MWA
The Canadian Red Cross is pleased to join @CanadaDev as new members to the @ifrc Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) Council. The @IFRC_DREF is a transparent way to directly fund local Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies when they need it most.
The @IFRC warmly welcomes the Government of Canada @CanadaDEV and the Canadian Red Cross @Redcrosscanada to the @IFRC_DREF Council. I am sincerely grateful to the Council's members for their significant guidance and support, which enables swift and efficient funding to local responders before and after crises.
The fund is supported by governments & organizations across the world to help facilitate rapid funding for urgent humanitarian needs & disaster response. As Council members, Canadian Red Cross & @CanadaDev will provide strategic guidance on the fund's performance & management.
The Canadian Red Cross is working with @filipinos_BC to support those impacted by the tragic events on the day of the Lapu Lapu Day Festival in Vancouver. You can help by donating to the Canadian Red Cross 2025 Vancouver Lapu Lapu Festival Appeal give.redcross.ca/page/25VLLF…
Together, we are committed to providing children displaced by conflict with spaces where they can feel safe, interact with other children, express themselves and enjoy normal childhood experiences despite the upheavals in their lives.
The armed conflict takes a huge toll on mental health, especially of children.
The @RedCrossUkraine supported by the @redcrosscanada set up child-friendly spaces across Ukraine so children like Veronika can play, join various classes and at least for a little while forget fear.
