Photos on opposite page: © Olav Saltbones, © Ibrahim Malla/Syrian Red Cr International emergency response The British Red Cross responds to natural disasters and conflicts around the world, working with the rest of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Key facts escent, © M. Al-Zuabi/ICRC. Photo on this page: © Sarah Oughton/BRC. > Recent emergency appeals > We maintain a Disaster Fund have raised vital funds to help so that money can be released people suffering from drought immediately when a disaster and famine in east and west strikes – in 2012, the fund Africa, and people affected by was used in South Sudan, conflict in Syria.Afghanistan, Mozambique and Burkina Faso, among > As of 2012, we are still working in other countries. Haiti, helping the country recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake by building housing, providing water and sanitation, and helping people restore their livelihoods. Ouilimatou is 21 months old. He lives in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, where lack of rain, drought and insect infestation led to poor harvests in 2012. His mother got sick and gave him to his grandmother Fatima to look after. Fatima brought Ouilimatou to the Red Cross health post in her remote village, where volunteers gave him a vitamin and mineral-enhanced porridge to help improve his health and referred him to the nearest health centre for more intensive treatment. Many women in the Hers is one of 23 villages in the region with a Red Cross health post village now want to join to treat malnourished children. the group as they see how Our West Africa Food Crisis Appeal funded food supplies and much it profits us healthcare across the region, as well as helping improve immigration and farming techniques to minimise the impact of future droughts. Oroukia, who works in a community redcross.org.uk/currentemergencies garden in Burkina Faso