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Monday Movement update #19

By Katrina Crew
August 17, 2009 at 10:46 am

Here’s your weekly update on what different members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement* are doing.

Typhoon Morakot: In Taiwan and China, Red Cross volunteers have been helping the emergency services with search and rescue operations, and delivering relief items. Read our disaster relief manager Pete Garratt’s blog about Typhoon Morakot.

Iraq: Around 500 people are killed every month in Iraq and 2,000 wounded in indiscriminate attacks. The ICRC’s delegation in Iraq has created a heartbreaking newsletter (PDF) with the stories of some of the civilians they’ve met.

Sri Lanka: A Red Cross project in the tsunami-hit area of Vaharai means people are drinking clean water for the first time in their lives.

*The Movement is made of 186 National Societies (including the British Red Cross), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Image © Francis Markus/IFRC

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