July 2014

On behalf of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society and on my own behalf, I would like to congratulate and extend best wishes to you all to the 66th anniversary of the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day celebrated on May 8, 2014 under the theme of My Red Cross Story. The theme of this […]

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Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) provided recognition to Ambassador Bekele Geletas humanitarian services during his tenure in the ERCS and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) at a dinner reception organized in honor of him at the National Palace on May 23rd, 2014. Dr. Mulatu Teshome, President of F.D.R.E. and […]

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A workshop, which was organized by the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) on Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting and financial reporting capacities, was conducted from May 25-26, 2014 at Butajira. It was indicated that the major objective of the workshop was to discuss and to improve planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting capacities of ERCS South […]

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Beyene Tafete, 27, a clinical nurse by profession, has just reported to his duty station at the Leitchour refugee camp, 900 kilometres west of Addis Ababa. He is a volunteer with the Gambella branch of the Ethiopia Red Cross Society. About two months ago he was deployed to the ambulance service operational in the camp […]

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About 900 kilometres west of Addis Ababa in Gambella is the sprawling Leitchour refugee camp. This has been home to Anter Gatluak Muon, 37, and his family since the end of January. Anter, along with about 150,000 people from South Sudan, fled to neighbouring Ethiopia following the outbreak of violence that started in December 2013. […]

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