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On the 3rd-6st August 2015, Latvian Red Cross Youth hosted the educational camp in Abragciems, Latvia with more than 40 participants from German, Estonian, Belarus, Ukrainian and Latvian Red Cross Youth. During the first three days everyone had an opportunity to join six First Aid trainings/ workshops, in which they went through couple of scenarios …

LatRC Riga centre branch hosted a meeting for their 10 years long cooperation partners – colleagues from German Red Cross Hamburg-Harburg branch. During the regular meeting the team discussed the activities that were made during the last year and also made the future cooperation plans.  

On 6-8 August 2015 LatRC Youth, in collaboration with LatRC Riga Centre branch, in the LatRC Social Centre “Kauguri” (Latvia) hosted an event – a friendship camp for Red Cross Youth divisions of Hamburg-Harburg (Germany) and Riga centre branch (Latvia). The main goal was to get to know each other better while participating at the …

Within LatRC Rezekne branch and Norwegian Red Cross Oppland branch cooperation, 12 families in Rezekne region are participating at the Work therapy project for social risk families. The project funds were used to buy seeds of vegetables, herbs and berries that were given to the families in order to plant them in their gardens, thus …

On 9-10 July, Red Cross EU office Coordination Group meeting took place in Riga, Latvia. The meeting was attended by Mr. Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Mr. Leon Prop, Director of Red Cross EU Office and members of the Coordination group from German, …

In 28 – 30 May in Riga, Latvian Red Cross hosted a meeting of the European Public Support Group (EPSG). In this meeting colleagues form Belgium, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Great Britain, Latvia, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland RC National Societies as well as from International Committee of the Red Cross …

On 18-19 June Latvian Red Cross represented European EAPN-Latvia in Belgium, Leuven within the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN-Europe) training. EAPN representatives from 24 countries were going through statistics and EU-policies and working on suggestions on how to get poverty context on EU agenda in order to improve the situation of the most deprived and …

Latvian Red Cross invites YOUNG AND BECOMING PARENTS to participate in educational activities! The planned sessions in May Date Themes of sessions  14th May  10:00–12:00 The theme of the session: child’s development “crises” until the age of 1.5 years What is a “development crisis” and how does it express? (reasons for the crisis and its …

During the last two months, all partners hosted National Workshops which were organized to have a discussion in order to identify the needs, structures and measures to prepare and reach older people in emergencies and disasters. The aim was to bring together experts from the health and social sector and the field of disaster management …

Latvian Red Cross invites YOUNG AND BECOMING PARENTS to participate in educational activities! The planned sessions in APRIL are: Date Themes 23rd April at 10:00-12:00 A session “A Set for Modern Mothers” pressure of the modern society; changes in the psyche of a mother; psychological complexes; other possible problems and changes. A creative session “Preparation …

Latvian Red Cross invites YOUNG AND BECOMING PARENTS to participate in educational activities! The planned sessions in APRIL are: Date Themes 23rd April at 10:00-12:00 A session “A Set for Modern Mothers” pressure of the modern society; changes in the psyche of a mother; psychological complexes; other possible problems and changes. A creative session “Preparation …

The Latvian Red Cross invites YOUNG AND BECOMING PARENTS to participate in educational activities! The planned sessions in APRIL are: Date Themes 16th April at 17:00 – 19:00 Session on breastfeeding: benefits of breastfeeding; when and how to start breastfeeding correctly; the most frequent problems of breastfeeding (shortage of milk, lactostasis, mastitis, wrong postures); the most frequent …