Our first aid project prepares you for disasters. We offer globally recognized certificates and we train most corporate and public organisation in the following areas:

•     Basic first aid

•     Mining first aid and

•     Instructor courses

For a period of 16-20 hours and only N$300.00, Our Class A first aid training course offers you knowledge in:

•     The medico-legal aspect of a first aid attendant

•     The responsibilities of a first aid attendant

•     The ambulance system

•     The basic anatomy and physiology:  How the body system works

•     Patient assessment:  Primary and secondary survey

•     The assessment and monitoring of vital signs

•     Respiratory emergencies

•     Chest injuries

•     Circulatory emergencies:  Heart attack and stroke

•     Bleeding: wounds, control of bleeding and bandaging

•     Administering patients under shock

•     Medical emergencies

•     The treatment of burns

•     Poisoning treatment

•     The problems of heat and cold

•     The movements of casualties

For a period of 4-6 hours and only N$100.00, our cardiopulmonary resuscitation course offers you knowledge in:

•     Risk factors

•     Signal and action of heart attack

•     Air obstructions

•     One rescuer CPR (Adult)

•     Turning and recovery

For a period of 60-70 hours and only N$400.00, Our Class B First aid course offers you the following knowledge:

•     You receive all the contents provided in Class A and additionally:

•     Spine immobilization

•     Crisis intervention

•     First on the scene management

•     Obstetrics:  emergency delivery and postpartum haemorrhage

The Namibia Red Cross Society’s disaster risk reduction activities began implementation in 2006. The project aims at reducing the impact of natural hazards on targeted communities, through the enhancement of community resilience, knowledge sharing and disaster response. The goal of the project is to reduce the impact of natural hazards (floods, drought,) with particular focus on the most vulnerable groups like the San communities in Caprivi, Ohangwena and Otjozondjupa regions. Special focus is also extended to the population residing in the flood prone areas in the Caprivi region.

The project is expected to:

•     Improve food security at household level of 6,000 San individuals in Tsumkwe district and Caprivi region.

•     Increase knowledge in farming techniques among San communities

•     Reduce loss of assets of 2000 individuals due to floods in Caprivi region

•     Increase the capacity of NRCS’ disaster response team to be able to create a National Disaster Response Team (NDRT).

•     Strengthen community early warning systems in Caprivi region on floods

The project will also facilitate profiling “lessons learnt” and working towards influencing policy/practice in disaster risk management. Sustainable livelihood framework forms a strong pillar of this project.

Imagine, family scattered, children left alone without care, parents imprisoned, dead or whose fate is unknown -- this is but some of the suffering caused by armed conflicts, internal unrest and violence -- especially when communications break down. The NRCS can help you find your loved ones if you had been separated from them because of a conflict, such as a war. This activity is called tracing and restoring of family links.

For more than a century, when faced with such moral distress, the ICRC has been restoring hope to these families through the work of its thousands of staff member and National Societies volunteers.

The project aims to:

•     Restore and maintain family ties

•     Reunite separated families

•     Find out what has happened to prisoners or missing persons

The project does this by:

•     Establishing a Red Cross and Red Crescent communication network enabling separated family members to resume contact and correspond with each other

•     Organizing, coordinating or facilitating the reunification of families across battle lines and national borders

•     Issuing ICRC travel documents for people who do not or no longer have any identity papers as a result of conflict

•     Collecting information on various categories of victims of armed conflicts, in order to assist them and inform their families of what has become of them

•     Acting as a neutral intermediary between families and parties to conflict in order to find out what has happened to persons reported missing or whose family and friends have no news of them

To benefit from this programme, please visit your nearest Red Cross office and fill in a Red Cross message.