Nicaragua

30 May 2013

New operations centre looks forward to the next 150 years of humanitarian action

To mark World Red Cross Red Crescent Day on 8 May, the Nicaraguan Red Cross open a new Emergency Operations Centre to improve its disaster response operations.
Nicaragua: restoring livelihoods after Hurricane Felix
3 July 2008

Nicaragua: restoring livelihoods after Hurricane Felix

Nicaraguan communities devastated by 2007’s Hurricane Felix have taken another step towards recovery, thanks to a food security and water and sanitation project set ...
Nicaraguan Red Cross succeeds in reaching remote communities after Felix
18 September 2007

Nicaraguan Red Cross succeeds in reaching remote communities after Felix

“Complex and costly” is how Alejandro Morales, Emergency Services Director for the Nicaraguan Red Cross (NRC) defined the integrated response of the variety of ...
Nicaraguan Red Cross bolsters emergency airlift for Felix casualties
7 September 2007

Nicaraguan Red Cross bolsters emergency airlift for Felix casualties

Nicaragua’s President, Daniel Ortega, has declared this remote coastal settlement, actually a cluster of 12 tiny hamlets, to be the worst hit by the passage of ...
6 September 2007

Felix casualties struggle to safety in small boats

The hard pressed Puerto Cabezas Branch of the Nicaraguan Red Cross (NRC) is being called at to receive hurricane Felix casualties arriving on the town's beaches in ...
5 September 2007

Nicaraguan Red Cross brought supplies to Mosquito Coast before Hurricane Felix struck

Nicaraguan Red Cross (NRC) operations chief, Flavio Vanegas, arrived in the Atlantic coastal town of Puerto Cabezas with a truckload of supplies two days before ...
Linking climate change and risk reduction
17 December 2004

Linking climate change and risk reduction

From the Arctic to Antarctica, from small island developing states and disaster prone countries, from environmental and humanitarian organizations, the overwhelming ...
Help for Nicaragua's violent slums
18 September 2003

Help for Nicaragua's violent slums

A group of young men, members of a gang called Los Charcones, approach the street carrying pickaxes and shovels.
Flood and drought challenge the Nicaragua Red Cross
11 June 2002

Flood and drought challenge the Nicaragua Red Cross

"First the water came into the house and then the level continued to rise.

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