On the steep hillsides near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, a ramshackle collection of camps and settlements have sprung up.
Conditions here are extremely harsh – almost everyone is sheltering under plastic sheeting – with heavy rain and mud spreading sewage and washing homes away.
Over half a million people have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 2017, the majority of them women and young girls.
Leanne and her daughter Maia, © Dave Fleming/UNP
Two thirds of parents surveyed said they did not know what a febrile seizure was, or how to recognise or treat one.*
Luckily for 18-month-old Maia from Swindon, her mum Leanne Barnett did know what to do.
Back when Maia was six months old, Leanne decided to take a baby and child first aid course with the British Red Cross.
It was a good decision. When Maia suffered a febrile seizure, Leanne was able to give her daughter exactly the help she needed.
Pupils from Mabhiza School in Zimbabwe – ©BritishRedCross
With peak hunger season approaching in Southern Africa, many rural communities are once again feeling the strain.
In rural Zimbabwe alone, it’s forecast that 1.1 million will be food insecure between January and March 2018.
But one community is bucking the trend, having reaped the rewards of a Red Cross community resilience project.
The Caribbean is beginning to pick up the pieces after the recent hurricanes. David Dalgado, on the British Virgin Islands, explains what the Red Cross is doing to help.
Stepping into the mud-caked home of Guiste Joseph, you begin to get an idea of the personal toll the recent hurricanes have wrought in the Caribbean.
© photo by AF Ghani/IFRC
In a makeshift camp in Bangladesh, 25-year-old Shovika Mia holds her newborn daughter.
Shovika gave birth to baby Nur Halima in the hills while fleeing her home in Myanmar.
She and her husband, Shona, are among the more than 436,000 people who have fled a sudden increase in violence in Rakhine State.
Back home, the young couple had a house and four cows that provided a stable income.
But their house was burned in the violence. And as they fled, their cows were shot.
Now, they live in an informal camp for new arrivals to Bangladesh.
Shona, 27, has found work as a day labourer for around £2.70 a day. And although Shovika feels weak herself, her main worry is for her baby’s future.
Westholme Junior School – ©BritishRedCross/ChrisBull
The world is reeling from a series of devastating natural disasters. From Hurricane Harvey and the flooding in South Asia, to Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
We can’t avoid natural disasters, but through the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement we can help people prepare for them – such as by teaching people to have a grab bag ready.
When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the American Red Cross noticed children using their pillowcases to carry their possessions to the rest centres.
Cue the Pillowcase Project: now even UK children are getting ready to face the worst with their pillowcase ‘grab bags’.
Rajuma Khatun fled Myanmar with her two children – ©IFRC/AJGhani
Life for people fleeing violence in Myanmar does not get any easier when they reach Bangladesh, as Corinne Ambler reports.
At the age of 25, Rajuma Khatun is a mother, a widow, and without a home. She is also exhausted.
The mother-of-two has barely eaten or slept since arriving in Bangladesh, having fled the violence in Myanmar.
It took her family seven days to travel from their home in Rakhine State to the relative safety of a settlement in Thangkhali, near the border.
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