Tag: Red Cross

The Red Cross and fintech company Inpay announce partnership to reach more countries for emergency aid funding

Stuart Mitchell

The Red Cross in Denmark has entered into a new partnership with fintech company, Inpay, which offers solutions for international money transfers. The agreement means that the Red Cross saves several million Danish kroner annually, which can be used directly for humanitarian work. Inpay’s solution is based on a tech-enabled network of global financial institutions, making it safer, faster and more cost-effective to send money internationally than it has been historically. Transferring money abroad can often be slow, unreliable, and associated with high fees. This is also a challenge for…

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Shop Secondhand With One4all Gift Cards As It Partners With The British Red Cross

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s leading multi-store gift card, One4all Gift Cards, has announced its charity partnership with the worldwide humanitarian organisation the British Red Cross. Established over 150 years ago, the British Red Cross is a renowned charity which provides support to people and communities in crisis in the UK and around the world. Their vital work includes responding to conflicts, natural disasters and personal emergencies, working hand-in hand with communities to find local solutions to the biggest global problems of our time. The organisation is part of a worldwide humanitarian network…

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Red Cross creates a timely new campaign that turns Instagram into a life-saving CPR tool

Stuart Mitchell

The Dutch Red Cross, or Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis, is launching ‘Life Saving Stories’, an innovative piece of CPR training on Instagram. The campaign was conceived, developed and produced in-house by 180 Amsterdam, in collaboration with the Red Cross.   The game consists of 35 animated Instagram Stories in which someone is resuscitated after a cardiac arrest based on the rhythm the person taps through the slides. By continuing to tap to the next story, the character stays alive.   With ‘Life Saving Stories’, 180 Amsterdam has, quite literally, tapped into the…

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Red Cross Experts Push New Land Rover Defender Prototype To The Limit In Desert Testing To Celebrate Renewal Of 65-Year Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

The new Land Rover Defender has been put through its paces under the watchful eye of all-terrain experts from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the latest stage of its global testing programme. The prototype vehicle visited the IFRC global fleet base in Dubai, ahead of its public debut later this year. Land Rover engineers demonstrated the vehicle’s breadth of capability to their IFRC counterparts both on and off road, before the IFRC fleet experts took to the wheel to test the vehicle for…

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Amazon Provides $1M Donation in Support of the Red Cross for Critical “Right Now Needs” of Blood Donations

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon has announced a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross to help increase blood donations and reduce shortages. The $1 million donation will be in the form of Amazon.com gift cards offered to those who come out to give blood at critical times throughout the year to help meet patient needs. The Red Cross responds to emergencies every day across the country, whether it’s supporting a family after a natural disaster or helping to provide critical blood products to a patient in need. Right now, there is a…

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