The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub

🎧PODCAST: Crises, migration et santé mentale et soutien psychosocial – Coordination et rôle clé de la Croix-Rouge Nigérienne et de ses partenaires

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Millions of people rely on essential services such as water, electricity and heating during winter in the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Where communities need help the most, our teams are there, seeking to help people get through the cold season. Learn more in our operational update: https://www.icrc.org/en/article/operational-update-assisting-communities-winter-russia-ukraine-international-armed-conflict

Ukraine | “You don’t enjoy life, you walk all huddled up, your mind doesn’t function properly", says Iryna, Deputy Director of a heating company in Chernihiv Region.

When the power goes out in winter, how do people cope?: ms.spr.ly/63321QH2QS

We express our deep respect and support for the Iranian Red Crescent Society and honour the memory of a colleague who has tragically lost his life while serving others.

The IFRC is deeply concerned about the consequences of the ongoing unrest on the people of Iran. bit.ly/4jGUa3S

Climate anxiety? We hear you. Check out advice from our mental health experts on how you can help your children cope with worries about climate change.

https://unicef.link/4lERJP2

The strikes' impact on civilians’ daily lives is unacceptable. Extreme cold makes it critical that people can keep warm. Millions have no hot water, heating or way to prepare a hot meal. This is the most difficult winter many civilians have experienced since the escalation of the armed conflict. Strikes on the electricity grid have a devasting impact on the availability of essential services like water, especially in cities. The cumulative effect is psychologically exhausting - and life threatening for the most vulnerable amongst the population. Attacks causing disproportionate harm to civilians, including by depriving their access to essential services such as electricity and heating that are essential for survival right now, are prohibited," said Ariane Bauer, ICRC regional director for Europe and Central Asia.

Recent strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and Russia have left millions of people with little or no electricity, water, and heating amid freezing temperatures in Kyiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Belgorod & other areas.

Ariane Bauer, ICRC regional director for Europe and Central Asia, shares more.

🎧 PODCAST: Sports with Social Impact: Girl Power 💪 ⚽ 🏅 🏀

We interviewed Khalida Popal, an award-winning Afghan football pioneer & activist & founder of the Girl Power organisation about the potential of sports in supporting inclusion & #mentalhealth.

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📣Building Sustainable MHPSS Practices: Guidance for National Societies

This guidance is intended to help Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) National Societies in building long-term #MentalHealth and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programming

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Today is International #MigrantsDay.

No human being is illegal. Saving lives is a humanitarian imperative, on sea, land, and everywhere in between.

Every day, the IFRC network teams are working hard to reach the last mile & ensure the safety of everyone.

No Christmas card – just a rhyme…

Seasonal greetings to you our Movement peer
We share the humanitarian principles you adhere
Thanks for your dedication to the cause
Hope you will find a minute to pause
Thinking back over the year that is ending
A mental break is what we are recommending

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❗Even wars have limits - sadly a much needed reminder from @icrc.org

📢Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 6: AI and chatbots

🤔 Too far, too fast ❓

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❤️ Regional training for Francophone Africa in Burkina Faso

👉 The regional training was joined by 24 MHPSS colleagues from RCRC Movement components, National Societies & key-humanitarian actors. It was hosted by Croix-Rouge Burkina Faso & co-facilitated by the MHPSS Hub.

🗨️"The Red Cross was the first actor to offer mental health support in Ukrainian which was of course vital in terms of establishing a safe-space of trust and understanding," Sharon Commins, Irish Red Cross ❤️

📢Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode episode 5: EASE

🤔 What matters to young people? #Climate, jobs, and #mentalhealth❗

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🗨️"to rebuild societies after a crisis, we need to ensure that people get the MHPSS they need. Investing in mental health is also an investment in capital, as untreated mental health conditions impose significant costs on healthcare systems, societies, & families...

Omar Salih Rasheed, @icrc.org

📢Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 4: Thinking Healthy

🤔 Tackling the complex issue of perinatal mental health ❗

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🗨️"Japan is prone to disasters, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) is one of our key pillar interventions among the Japanese Red Cross Society's (JRCS) emergency response," Reo Morimitsu.

🗨️ The Cyprus Red Cross Society was part of the emergency response after the wildfires over the summer providing relief items as well as psychosocial support activities including the establishment of safe spaces for children trying to uphold a sense of normalcy amid the destruction", Polina Savva ❤️

🗨️ For Palestinians it is hard to talk or think about emergencies as something timebound that breaks a normal situation. We live, breathe and bleed an ongoing and all-consuming emergency with mass casualties, displacement, and destruction.

Shaden Saleem, Palestine Red Crescent Society PRCS ❤️

Local action, lasting resilience. 💪

Through the Afghan Red Crescent and IFRC’s Cash-for-Work initiative, 152 skilled returnees from Iran helped build flood-protection structures that now safeguard 2,700 households in Herat.

A safer future, built by the community.

Even when she struggles to find food for her family, Mouda Al-Hasanat volunteers with Palestine Red Crescent to deliver hot meals and aid across Gaza.

Volunteers like Mouda are the backbone of humanitarian response – yet too often, their safety is at risk. They must be protected. #ProtectHumanity

One can think of quite a few actors who need to pay close attention to this message from our colleagues at @icrc.org

WARS HAVE LIMITS - CIVILIANS ARE:
#NotATarget❗
#NotATarget❗
#NotATarget❗

Actors still in doubt - please start from the top again...

Over 445,000 people have been displaced in 2025 in South Sudan as funding dries up. We urge all parties to the conflict, authorities, and donors to take action to prevent a catastrophe in the months to come.

In 2025 alone, the combined effects of conflict in South Sudan, the consequences of conflict in Sudan, recurrent intercommunal violence, and massive floods have devastated communities.

Read more about the situation here: ms.spr.ly/63328tyzD4

Sixty years on: why the Fundamental Principles must be lived, not just remembered The Fundamental Principles are living commitments that must be exercised and defended, to keep humanity alive in the darkest of times.

🕊 For six decades, the #FundamentalPrinciples have enabled aid to cross frontlines & hope to reach despair. But today's climate puts them under extraordinary strain.

Read why the Fundamental Principles must be lived, not just remembered → bit.ly/4nn0kGK

@icrc.org #HumanitarianAction #ICRC

📍#Sudan |
Humanity must prevail.

We call on all parties to the conflict to respect and protect civilians, medical personnel, and humanitarian workers in Al Fasher and beyond.

Read our full statement 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6015tDlpc

📍 Sudan | We are deeply saddened by the killing of five Sudanese Red Crescent Society volunteers in Bara, North Kordofan. Humanitarian workers must never be a target. Our hearts are with their families, colleagues, and all those they served with compassion and courage.

Sudan |We are deeply saddened by the killing of five Sudanese Red Crescent Society volunteers in Bara, North Kordofan.

Humanitarian workers must never be a target. Our hearts are with their families, colleagues, and all those they served with compassion and courage. ms.spr.ly/63324t8NCe

Great news on #Ebola in #DRC to start off Monday❤️

Six ways IHL protects mental health Mental health has long been present in IHL, and its relevance continues to grow as our understanding of mental well-being deepens.

🏥 1 in 5 people who’ve experienced armed conflict in the past decade suffer from a mental health condition, yet the legal protection of #MentalHealth in war remains largely overlooked.

Discover 6 ways #IHL seeks to safeguard it → bit.ly/474UAeB

#HumanitarianAction #EmergingVoices #WMHD

#WorldMentalHealthDay 2025 focused on #MentalHealth in catastrophes & emergencies – the daily workspace for millions of RCRC staff & volunteers across the globe.

We asked our colleagues for some words on MHPSS in emergencies in their respective countries & regions ❤️

#WorldMentalHealthDay 2025 focused on #MentalHealth in catastrophes & emergencies – the daily workspace for millions of RCRC staff & volunteers across the globe.

We asked our colleagues for some words on MHPSS in emergencies in their respective countries & regions ❤️