After beating cancer, Thomas and his wife Mary were determined to continue leading a very active social life, they found that there was a lack of health based programmes for their age group in their local area. Then they found something in their local paper…
Irish Charities Archive
Steps Toward Community Health

Irish Red Cross healthy steps
The No-Borders Blanket

largest knitted blanket record breaking attempt ireland Clare Valery Larkin Red Cross
How would you pass the time in a Refugee Camp?

Ritsona, Greece - Ritsona refugee camp is located near Chalkida, approximately one hour north of Athens and is housing around 600 refugees, mainly Syrians and Kourds. Socrates Baltagiannis/ IFRC
A #Selfieless Christmas with Canon

An Irish Red Cross Report From the Camps in Greece_Christmas 2016
Joana Ramalho from our Irish Red Cross team recently traveled to Greece to report on the conditions in camps and the challenges facing the refugees and migrants who have been living in them for nearly a a year now. In this video she made in Kordelio camp near Thessaloniki, Joana shows us how people are living.
A letter from Mohammad, Kordelio camp near Thessaloniki, Greece

I went to the Greece with a smuggler. It was a very difficult journey by sea, very hazardous you know. I arrived just before the border closed so I have been here nine months, but I am hoping to go to Sweden one day. I work as a volunteer for the Red Cross in the camps. This is very important because most people don’t speak English. They need me to translate what they think and what they need.
Typhoon Haiyan 1 Year on: ‘I felt like it was the last day of my life’

Manuel Beron resident of Barangay Biasong in the Philippines.
My name is Manuel Beron. I am 48 years old, I live in Barangay Biasong in the Philippines and I have 7 children. I used to be a farmer but these days I sell charcoal. During Typhoon Yolanda (aka Typhoon Haiyan), I felt like it was the last day of my life because of the strong winds. Yolanda broke my house. During the typhoon, we did not come to any rehabilitation centre, we just stayed at the house. All my chickens died. My vegetable plants were gone. That just scared me most; not for only myself, but also my children, and my wife.
Balkans Volunteer: Milan Mirkovic in Serbia
Balkans Left Fighting Mud and Garbage Left Behind By Flood
