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Tajikistan

1 December 2011

Red Crescent Youth volunteers promote positive attitudes towards people living with HIV

Iso Azonov, a young volunteer of the Red Crescent of Tajikistan and first-year student at the Tajik National University, tries to play his role convincingly in front 400 students and teachers from the Pedagogical University of Tajikistan.
A lifeline for the elderly in Tajikistan’s capital
21 October 2011

A lifeline for the elderly in Tajikistan’s capital

At the entrance of an anonymous building in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, we meet Baba Valya, a 76-year-old woman who is coming back from the grocery store ...
Providing the source of life
11 August 2011

Providing the source of life

In many areas of the world, access to basic health care is limited and a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation exposes children to serious, but preventable, ...
Red Crescent in action as mudslides hit Tajikistan
14 June 2011

Red Crescent in action as mudslides hit Tajikistan

By Joe Lowry Floods and mudslides are causing havoc in one of Central Asia’s most disaster-prone countries, and the local Red Crescent is at the forefront of the...
Tajikistan: Red Crescent responds to worst disaster in over a decade
10 June 2010

Tajikistan: Red Crescent responds to worst disaster in over a decade

Torrential rain, snow, avalanches, floods, mudslides, rock flows and landslides: they were all thrown at Tajikistan this spring.
Tajikistan: volunteers help government tackle polio outbreak
28 May 2010

Tajikistan: volunteers help government tackle polio outbreak

About 400 volunteers from the Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan, with the support of the International Federation, are currently involved in a government-led ...
6 January 2010

Tajikistan: Earthquake in the Pamir mountains affects over 6,000 people

Gishkhun is one of 20 villages in the mountains of central Tajikistan that was seriously damaged by a magnitude 5.
15 July 2009

Tajikistan: recovering from mudslides and floods

The tent camp set up in Khuroson, in south-east Tajikistan, is full of life as villagers struggle to recover after their homes were buried under a metre-thick layer ...
Tajikistan: disaster preparedness reduces risks and saves lives
8 October 2008

Tajikistan: disaster preparedness reduces risks and saves lives

A sunny, late September morning in the remote, mountain village of Kachamandi, in Rasht province, Tajikistan (population 2,000).
Tajikistan: Helping elderly people survive in the cold without heating
6 March 2008

Tajikistan: helping elderly people survive in the cold without heating

Even elderly people in Tajikistan cannot recall when the country experienced such a harsh winter.
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