The Ethiopian Red Cross Society(ERCS) marked the 151st World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day with an event named as Walk for Humanity in Addis Ababa on the 11th of May 2014. Some 2,000 participants including management and staff members of ERCS, IFRC, ICRC, partner national societies, Red Cross youth and volunteers, and companies supporting […]
The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) along with the Sweden Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) evaluated and discussed on the future design of food security program in Tigray on February 18 and 19, 2006. Secretary General of ERCS, W/ro Firehiwot Worku, who attended the evaluation meeting in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
As the Ethiopian Government continues to receive its citizens from Saudi Arabia, the Ethiopian Red Cross Society(ERCS) has joined hands in supporting the returnees to get back them to their normal lives. The Society deployed its staff, volunteers and resources to the situation that is now requiring emergency response. ERCS deployed some 60 volunteers who […]
Buses full of South Sudanese refugees drive through the mango and fish rich town of Gambella, in southwestern Ethiopia, before finally arriving at the newly set up refugee camp of Leitchor near the border with South Sudan. According to official sources, there were more than 29,000 refugees in the Leitchor camp which opened in January, […]