Tag: China

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up

Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling […]

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up

Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling […]

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up

Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling […]

Observe World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day. Take a moment to remember that someone becomes infected with HIV every 12 seconds, about half of them under age 25. Every 16 seconds someone […]

Rebuilding, Through The Eyes Of Children

So there are stats…and there are stories. Two years ago today (May 12, 2008), an 8.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Wenchuan county and the surrounding areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi […]

A Moment Of Reflection

Today is a day for thinking about where we’ve been and where we’re heading. Why? Because March 12, 2010 is exactly two years after the Sichuan earthquake…and four months after […]

Haiti: Two Months Later

This morning the American Red Cross published a two month progress report on relief efforts for Haiti. “As part of its largest international response since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, […]

Catching Up In China

One year ago today, our eyes were tuned to the news as we watched a terrible earthquake strike the Sichuan region of China. The earthquake — more powerful than any […]

Check Out Our New Shirts!

We got a very cool delivery today…several t-shirts that were used by the Portland Chinese Times to raise money to support China earthquake relief efforts. Here you see the t-shirt […]