To help empower more women like Juanita, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided assistance to the organization through a cash grant for its Hog Dispersal and Rice & Feeds Supply ...

MANILA, Philippines – On the worst days, kidnapped Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni couldn't stop himself from picturing how he feared his monthslong jungle captivity in the southern ...

The Philippine Red Cross is celebrating its 72nd founding anniversary this year. From its humble beginning as a group of Filipino women who attended to the sick and wounded during the war, it has ...

MANILA, Philippines, April 18 (UPI) -- One of the remaining two aid workers held hostage by Filipino rebels has been rescued, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Saturday.

On Jan. 7, 1975, the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women was established and this year, ... who also served as chairman and long-time governor of the Philippine Red Cross, ...

MANILA, Philippines — Al-Qaida-linked militants released one of three Red Cross hostages, a Filipino woman, today after 10 weeks in jungle captivity on a southern island, the defense chief ...

Wouldn't you want help if it happened in your community? Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan need your assistance! Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) swept across the central Philippines on Friday ...

The American Red Cross has dispatched four of its staff members to the Philippines, and one of them—Helen Welch, an information management specialist—brought with her more than 50 paper maps ...

MALDEN (CBS) -- Louis Matnog of Malden, a Red Cross international disaster worker, is flying to the Philippines for a month-long relief effort after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the country.