When Disaster Strikes

Local Red Cross Members Provide Aid Following Cyclone Idai

Huge crowds attending a distribution event in an area that was under water just a few days previously all need help rebuilding their homes and lives. Veteran humanitarian responders Jamie LeSueur of the IFRC and Sebastian Rhodes-Stampa of UNOCHA look on impressed as local members of the Red Cross distribute aid items to those made homeless by Cyclone Idai.

Local Red Cross Members Provide Aid Following Cyclone Idai

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