From smallpox to Covid-19, we have played an essential role in vaccination campaigns to prevent diseases and improve public health. Smallpox was a highly infectious and deadly disease that was endemic ...

Trained Afghan Red Crescent volunteers undertook search and rescue missions following a devastating earthquake late on 31 August 2025. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Jalalabad, ...

Heat can disrupt your sleep. Follow our advice to make sure you are able to stay cool at night. It can be difficult to sleep in a heatwave. If it's too hot or too cold, your internal body temperature ...

Explore our free teaching and learning resources to help enrich national curriculum subjects, like PSHE and citizenship, and connect human crisis with human kindness. We offer a variety of free ...

On 28 March 2025, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar at approximately 1:10pm local time, its epicentre located 17 kilometres southeast of Mandalay. The Sagaing and Mandalay regions have ...

On 8 September 2023, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco, causing widespread destruction. Thousands of people lost their lives and many more lost livelihoods, homes and loved ones. Moroccan Red ...

More than 50,000 refugees could be made homeless by the end of the year if the Government doesn’t take urgent steps to support them as it clears the asylum backlog, the British Red Cross warns. The ...

The British Red Cross has launched an emergency fundraising appeal in response to two devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Reports are emerging that more than a thousand people have died, with ...

Over the past few months, Pakistan has faced severe monsoon flooding. The rains have caused widespread damage and are expected to continue. The Pakistan Red Crescent has been working hard to respond ...

A new report from the British Red Cross, Seen and heard: Understanding frequent attendance at A&E, has found people who frequently attended A&E in Dorset were 72 per cent more likely to live in an ...

The malnutrition crisis in Nigeria is escalating and urgent action is needed to save lives. Without immediate intervention, 1.8 million children could die from severe acute malnutrition (SAM).

A British Red Cross volunteer of more than four decades, who supported people impacted by the London tube bombings in July 2005, has been recognised in the New Year’s Honour’s List. Volunteer ...