Extensive damage in a community following a natural disaster, with debris scattered around including overturned vehicles and demolished structures.

Two American Red Cross volunteers distributing meals from a vehicle to a person. The volunteers are wearing vests and one is handing over a meal container.

More than 770 Red Cross disaster workers are providing shelter, meals and emergency supplies after severe weather, including tornadoes and flooding, devastated communities in the South and Midwest.

Additional teams are on standby as more catastrophic flash flooding is expected in the days ahead.

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The Global Shelter Cluster is seeking to:

👉 understand the challenges and impacts of extreme heat events on shelter and settlements assistance, and
👉 identify needs to address those challenges.

💡Have thoughts to share? Check out their survey✍️ bit.ly/3FlxdDr

Year-end news review 2024 – Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre The Climate Centre supports the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and its partners in reducing the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on vulnerable people.

It's been a busy year at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. Check out some of our 2024 highlights in our annual end of year review! bit.ly/4gM8Qfs

Today, on International Volunteer Day, we say 'thank you’ to our Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers around the world. Whether they are responding to earthquakes or cyclones, to the climate crisis or to mass migration, their commitment has been unwavering. #IVD2024 #ProtectHumanity

I also started a Heat Resilience Starter Pack of those working to address the global threat of extreme heat and advance heat resilience - researchers, practitioners, decision-makers, and community members! bsky.app/starter-pack... #extremeheat #heatresilience