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The December 2004 tsunami took a devastating toll on the Indonesian province of Aceh, killing more than 130, 000 people and leaving mere than half a million homeless.
A staggering 116, 000...
With the help of the ICRC, four children in the Lukolé refugee camps prepare to leave Tanzania to return to their families in Burundi. The organization has been active in this camp since 1994 and...
The number of displaced people around the world has increased consistently over the past 10 years. The total number doubles every seven or eight years and this upward trend shows no sign of...
The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Sphere is based on two core beliefs: first, that all possible steps should be...
Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness (PASSA) isa participatory method of disaster risk reduction (DRR) relatedto shelter safety. It is a variation of Participatory Hygiene...
With this Climate Guide for the Red Cross and Red Crescent we aim to share the experiences of more than 40 National Societies who, in the last five years have started to address climate change in...
A Red Cross film that uses documentary and participatory video to look at Community-Based Adaptation to climate change in Jakarta. The film whos how poor people are already adaptating and calls...
This carefully illustrated guide to how to build a safe shelter addresses cyclone-resistant construction. Full-color, labelled illustrations demonstrate the primary parts of a safer shelter. The...
On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9. 0 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of massive tsunamis that devastated communities in 10 countries surrounding the Indian...
Sri Lanka - J. C. Nimmi's story: from transitional shelter to her new home
As the tsunamis swept across vast tracts of land around the Bay of Bengal, they took with them virtually...