For the first time since the historic World War II, humanity has come face to face with a crisis that has had such a sudden impact on the whole world in 2020. The climate crisis has also harshly called attention to itself while wars, conflicts, disasters, famine, and poverty continue. We’ve watched the rapid melting…
Addiction continues to be a major social problem around the world. According to research, the number of addicted people has been gradually increasing over the years and loss of life due to addiction continues to increase. With our 100 years of experience and know-how as the Green Crescent, we are struggling versatilely with the problem…
Uluslararası Kızılhaç ve Kızılay Dernekleri Federasyonu (IFRC) tarafından hazırlanan 2020 Dünya Afet Raporu’ndan öne çıkan konular
When assessing 2020 in terms of humanitarian relief, the COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been the dominant development. IHH established a COVID-19 commission after the pandemic reached Turkey and launched the “Now is Time for Solidarity” campaign to help those suffering from economic difficulties, distributing food packages to more than 100,000 families. 40,000 food packages were…
The Qatar Charity’s (QC) Turkey office continues to provide its humanitarian assistance to the vulnerable IDPs, refugees, and host communities in North Syria and Turkey. Throughout 2020, QC has contributed significantly to addressing the needs of internationally displaced persons (IDPs) in Northwest Syria based on the 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and the Regional Refugee…
Humanity throughout history has suffered from different types of disasters and been subjected to great devastation. Due to certain disasters like earthquakes, floods, avalanches not being able to be detected in advance or the necessary precautions not being taken, the traces they leave are equally large. 2020 is engraved in our minds as an unforgettable…
Spread all over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has had many consequences adversely affecting social and economic life in addition to its impacts on the field of health. As a result, the healing process will take much longer than expected when actors who struggle with the pandemic make plans by ignoring these effects. Throughout the…
The Turkish Red Crescent has constructed its 2030 goals on strategic community-based projects. Therefore, the most important stakeholders for the Red Crescent are all our people, all our citizens. Another year where efforts to touch each citizen with this understanding were attempted by always keeping alive has been completed at Red Crescent. Despite 2020 being…
2020 has been a year in which we’ve intensely felt the impacts of globalization and importance of global solidarity. Evaluating any crisis on a local scale is practically impossible currently. The year we’ve left behind us has shown that we need to calculate how a problem that started in a specific region, a humanitarian crisis,…
Starting at the end of 2019 and affecting the whole world in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on the field of blood services, just as in many areas. On one hand, the Turkish Red Crescent Blood Services team has taken personal protective measures; on the other hand, the team has structured its…
