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Tajikistan: disaster preparedness reduces risks and saves livesTajikistan: 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). When the villagers noticed Red Crescent vehicles and people in red jackets arriving early that morning, they knew it heralded the beginning of an earthquake simulation exercise.
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Georgia: psychosocial support essential for internally displacedGeorgia: psychosocial support essential for internally displaced
One month after the cease fire agreement, an estimated 30,000 people are still internally displaced in Georgia - 20,000 of them in the capital, Tbilisi. While this is a huge drop from the original number of more than 100,000, the needs are still great, emotional as well as physical. In response, the Red Cross is building up psychosocial support activities.
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Displaced people from South Ossetia still need vital assistance

 

Guatemala: Growing awareness for climate changeGuatemala: Growing awareness for climate change
The Guatemalan Red Cross, with support from the Netherland Red Cross, is working towards this goal by strengthening local capacities to respond to disasters and raising awareness about the effects of climate change.
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  Empress Shôken Fund – a partner for positive change
  Pakistan: Joy as schools reopen after earthquake
  Zimbabwe food crisis: Tendai, 35, Red Cross home-based care client in Masvingo
  Ethiopia: Fighting the deadly drought
  India: Massive flood relief operation underway
  Egyptian Red Crescent blazes trail for pandemic-flu preparedness
 
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  9 October 2008
The International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies wins a special mention
at the 2008 DuPont Safety Awards
  7 October 2008
International Day for Disaster Reduction: In Central Asia, early action saves lives
  7 October 2008
Earthquake recovery continues in Pakistan
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Maldives: final steps to recoveryMaldives: final steps to recovery
Power is on its way to the island of Vilufushi as the final phase of work on the British Red Cross recovery programme in the Maldives begins.
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More information about the tsunami operation

OPINION PIECES
HIV in Southern Africa: “A disaster by anyone’s definition”
The 2008 World Disasters Report makes a bold statement, one that has been feared and dodged by most. It argues that HIV and AIDS is a disaster – at the household, community and in some instances, the country level.
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Volunteers essential to protecting human dignity
Statement delivered at the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross Red Crescent.
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