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Psychosocial Support in Europe
In Europe, a Red Cross Red Crescent network for psychosocial support has existed since 2000. You can read more about it here. |
Earthquake in Iceland: Red Cross supports traumatized populations
Icelandic Red Cross teams swung into action immediately after a strong earthquake shook the south-western tip of Iceland on 29 May. More than 100 volunteers from the affected area and from the capital – Reykjavík, responded by opening and operating seven emergency shelters in the major towns in the south of Iceland.
Read more on the International Federation web site |
Shooting in Kauhajoki: Finnish Red Cross provides emergency psychological support
The Finnish Red Cross has been closely involved in the work to provide crisis support for people shocked by the recent shooting in the town of Kauhajoki. Eleven people were killed in Kauhajoki Vocational College in Western Finland on Tuesday 23 September when a young man shot nine students and one teacher just before noon.
Read more on the International Federation web site |
Kasakhstan: Psychosocial support after mine explosion
The Kasakhstan Red Crescent Society was called to support miners and their families in january after an explosion of methane gas in the Abay mine in kasakhstan´s Karaganda region and The Russian Red Cross brought its expertise to assist the Kasakhstan Red Crescent and trained 13 volunteers from the Karaganda branch to carry out a psychosocial support programme.
Read more in the short DREF note in Coping with Crisis #3/2008 |
Barajas airport crash: Spanish Red Cross teams continue essential psychological support
153 people lost their lives and several were injured in the air crash at Barajas airport in Madrid the 20th of August 2008. In the days after the air crash, 23 Spanish Red Cross teams brought essential psychological support to families of the victims.
Read more on the International Federation web site |
Kyrgyzstan air crash – Red Crescent brings comfort to victims’ relatives
Kyrgyzstan Red Crescent volunteers and staff were immediately mobilized to bring essential comfort to the relatives of victims of the crash of an airplane near Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, which killed 68 people of the 90 passengers and crew on the evening of Sunday 24 August.
Read more on the International Federation web site |
Ukraine Red Cross goes deeper for traumatized miners
On 18 November 2007, a methane explosion ripped through Zasyadko coal minie -- the biggest in Donetsk, the heart of Ukraine´s coal industry. One hundred and one miners were killed and 40 injured. Shortly after the disaster, The Ukranian Red Cross (URC) mobilized resources to provide social and psychosocial support for the 156 hospitalized miners.
Read more on the International Federation web site |
Displaced people from South Ossetia receive vital assistance
More than 30.000 people fled to the Russian Federation during the crisis in South Ossetia last August. Red Cross workers and volunteers are delivering vital support to the displaced families.
Read more on the International Federation web site |
Durable solutions in Montenegro
Roma is the largest minority group in Europe without its own territory, a group with poverty levels four times that of the general population. In Montenegro, through a programme with several psychosocial components, the Montenegro Red Cross (MRC) works with Roma children to improve their access to education andenhance their social inclusion.
Read more in Coping with Crisis #3/2007 |
Beslan – helping victims after the school crisis
The Russian Red Cross, with support from the International Federation, started a community-based psychosocial support programme in Beslan in 2005 oriented towards improving the psychological well-being, preventing social problems and diffusing the psychological and social tension in the region increased after the school crisis.
Read more in Coping with Crisis #1/2008 |
Mine Blasts in Siberia
The death toll at two mines in Kuzbass coal region in Russia in 2007 reached 149. In April at Ulyanovskaya 110 miners died and in May at mine Yubileinaya 39 out of 148 miners perished in the explosion. The Russian Red Cross (RRC), together with the International Federation, started a six-month psychosocial support programme in Kemerovo, involving psychologists and nurses from the RRC Rehabilitation Centre in Beslan, North Ossetia.
Read more in Coping with Crisis #3/2007 |
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