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Here For Good: New Zealand Red Cross in Your Community and Overseas

The document summarizes the work of the New Zealand Red Cross, which has over 12,000 volunteers and staff that help Kiwis in need through various programs. Some of the key programs discussed are Meals on Wheels, which has delivered over 600,000 meals annually in New Zealand; training programs that teach first aid and emergency response skills; support for refugees and disaster relief efforts both domestically and internationally through humanitarian aid. Funds raised through events like the National Street Appeal and Cross for Red Cross support these various Red Cross programs in New Zealand and around the world.

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Here For Good: New Zealand Red Cross in Your Community and Overseas

The document summarizes the work of the New Zealand Red Cross, which has over 12,000 volunteers and staff that help Kiwis in need through various programs. Some of the key programs discussed are Meals on Wheels, which has delivered over 600,000 meals annually in New Zealand; training programs that teach first aid and emergency response skills; support for refugees and disaster relief efforts both domestically and internationally through humanitarian aid. Funds raised through events like the National Street Appeal and Cross for Red Cross support these various Red Cross programs in New Zealand and around the world.

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Here for

good
New Zealand Red Cross
in your community and overseas

Worldwide strength
Red Cross Red Crescent is
the largest humanitarian
network in the world and
now reaches:
150 million people
In 190 countries
Through the work of 13
million volunteers.
With 150 years of
experience

And in New Zealand


We have been helping Kiwis for over
100 years!

New Zealand Red Cross is a network


of 12,000 members, volunteers and
staff who work together to help
people in need and increase
community resilience.

Meals on Wheels
Began in 1951
One of our longeststanding and most
recognised Red Cross
services in New
Zealand
Over 600,000 meals
delivered in NZ every
year, 100,000 in
Auckland

People Savers
Community Trainers
Basic First Aid for
children aged 8-12
years
Delivered in schools
and community
groups
Skills to act in an
emergency situation

Refugee Programmes
750 new refugees each
year
Additional 600 Syrian
refugees between 20162018
Professional support
through social workers,
cross cultural workers and
trained volunteers
Current settlement
locations: Auckland,
Hamilton, Palmerston

Disaster
management
19 Disaster Welfare
Support Teams
across the country
Volunteer based,
38 volunteers in
Auckland
Regular training
exercises and
simulations

International aid programmes


We train and deploy
highly skilled health
care, IT and other
specialist workers
44 aid workers
deployed overseas for
57 missions
Pictured: Liz
Macdonald, kiwi nurse
at an Ebola Treatment
Centre in Sierra Leone,

International
Emergency Response
Response includes Provision of
funding, shelter kits and other
relief items and skilled
workers
Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu,
March 2015,
Nepal Earthquakes, April
2015.

Upcoming events
National Street Appeal 4th 5th March
Ports of Auckland Round
the Bays, Sunday 6th March
Cross for Red Cross
Fundraising income is used
to support all the Red
Cross programmes in this
presentation.

Questions?
For more information see our website

redcross.org.nz

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