HOME  Who we are  Where we work  What we do   News  Health  Disaster Risk Mgt.  Volunteer  Events  Donate  Links  Contact Us  Search	No. 9 November - December 2007           < return to Newsletters Home     INSIDE THIS EDITION...     Red Cross to work with local governments in disaster preparedness VCA is a tool that helps the Red Cross not only in improving their planning skills in disaster preparedness...           International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies launches DIPECHO VI Project The programme will work with the inhabitants of highly vulnerable communities in the Caribbean region...           Disaster Management in the Caribbean improved through ECHO programme Under the theme “Building on Capacity: An Integrated Disaster Preparedness for a Comprehensive Response in the Caribbean,” the ECHO funds was spent on the International Federation’s activities in support of 16 Red Cross Societies and the British and Netherlands Red Cross Branches in the Caribbean...           The ICRC in the Caribbean The ICRC Sub-Delegation for the CARICOM Region is based in Port of Spain and maintains responsibility for implementation of its Mandate in Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago...           Caribbean Red Cross join together to promote a humanitarian drug policy in the region Fourteen Caribbean Red Cross National Societies have agreed to take the innovative framework for dialogue and co-operation from the Rome Consensus to promote and implement a humanitarian approach to drug policy...           Red Cross "takes the lead" in fighting HIV On World AIDS Day 2007, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (International Federation) reiterated its call for communities to start taking a more proactive approach in the fight against HIV...           New continental campaign for blood donations launched McCann Erickson, the advertising agency that developed the campaign used this opportunity to reiterate its commitment and support to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ efforts in voluntary non-remunerated blood donation...           Red Cross in Action News briefs of the activities of Red Cross Societies and Overseas Branches in their respective territories...