Protecting Children during Heatwaves:
Discover how to transform Child Friendly Spaces into lifesaving Cooling Stations during heatwaves.
This essential Guidance Note offers National Societies practical steps to safeguard children from the dangers of extreme heat, such as heat stroke, dehydrat...
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As part of its disaster response, the Timor Leste Red Cross has included child friendly spaces to support children's mental health and psychosocial support and to increase protection.
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Through the IFRC Children Affected by Armed Conflict project, the Yemen Red Crescent has delivered essential services to orphans and children with disabilities.
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The Lesotho Red Cross programme for children who are orphaned or in vulnerable situations applies an intersectional community health model that integrates mental health and psychosocial support, stakeholder engagement, livelihood support, and direct linkages to primary healthcare facilities. In this...
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The Baphalali Eswatini Red Cross is delivering services to children who are orphaned or in vulnerable situations through a partnership with the Lars Amundsen Family Foundation and the Japanese Red Cross Society. The services are implemented in the Hhohho and Shiselweni Regions through clinics operat...
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Within a context of multiple over-lapping conflicts and disasters, the Myanmar Red Cross Society has been implementing Child-Friendly Spaces that offer safe environments where children can play, learn, express themselves, and receive support to cope with the challenges they face. These spaces provid...
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The Russian Red Cross delivers Family Centres for children through 25 regional branches. The Family Centres support children affected by displacement, stress, and disrupted living conditions and offers structured, group-based psychosocial and psychoeducational sessions for children....
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The Norwegian Red Cross provides protection and assistance services to child refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers who transit through the National Arrival Centre in Norway. The Norwegian Red Cross continuously works to provide children with psychosocial support and meaningful activities and ensure...
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The 2,000 daycare and youth welfare facilities operated by the German Red Cross provide a permanent nationwide system of education, care, and protection for children aged one to twelve years. These facilities support families in their daily lives while ensuring that every child—regardless of gender,...
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South Africa Red Cross through its Daveyton Branch located in Gauteng Province, implements the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Drop-in Centre Programme at Etwatwa Township. This is funded by the South Africa Department of Social
Development. The programme responds to the compounded effects o...
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