Photo credit – Mathieu Surpin At the beginning of the year 2022, I would like to start by extending my best wishes to everyone who reads this newsletter of the Global First Aid Reference Centre. First aid is both a heritage that obliges us and a challenge that motivates us. I am all the more...
Kampala, Uganda Around 1:40am on April 6th, Richard Kabunga was walking home from a friend’s housewarming party when he found a man lying unconscious outside a bar in his neighbourhood. “He had been left for dead by the roadside,” Kabunga says. “It was raining...
Edito of the Global First Aid Reference Centre Newsletter “As I’ve been involved in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement for 40 years, I realised that I have absorbed all of its principles and it became a part of me. I always wanted to be part of an organisation that relieved the...
First Aid Trainer of Trainers Course with The Gulf Medical University November 08 2021 The Global First Aid Reference Centre and the IFRC Gulf Country Cluster Delegation successfully organized a blended-learning trainer of trainers (ToT) and trainer course for the Gulf Medical University (GMU) in...
EnThe International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Global First Aid Reference Centre are glad to make available three online courses on IFRC learning platform regarding first aid for different audiences: baby and children, adults and...
Migrations can happen in any part of the world, regardless of the origin, religion and ethnicity of the people. According to the United Nations, the global number of migrations per year has reached 272 million of people in 2019. This substantial number shows an increase of 50 million...
NATIONAL SOCIETIES CONSULTATION ON FIRST AID POLICY UNTIL 7th January 2022 – CLOSED. Thank you! This draft policy was developed together with the First Aid Steering Committee and the First Aid Policy technical working group based on the inputs gathered from the virtual consultations meetings...
The Regional Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean (PIRAC), through the READY Together programme, joined forces with the Global First Aid Reference Centre (GFARC) to host a first aid workshop and training session, at Sint Maarten, from 2021 November 9-14, to enhance the skills of National...
General Assembly 2022 : launching of the Technical Working Groups to reposition first aid at the centre of the IFRC’s strategy Last year, the IFRC announced its initiative of repositioning first aid at the heart of its 2030 strategy and vision. In order to seize this opportunity, a joint...
World Restart A Heart Toolkit Despite the current pandemic, the IFRC through GFARC joins once again the initiative launched by ILCOR on World Restart A Heart day on the 16th October! #WRAH Slogan:“Your two hands can save lives!” #WRAH...
In order to reach its ambition to work closely with National Societies and answer the needs of the field according to the context, the Global First Aid Reference Centre organises ‘Regional First Aid Meetings’ since its creation, consisting of a series of sessions for Red Cross and Red...
Training of ToT in Eastern Europe The international curriculum for trainers of trainers (ToT) is one of the core tools of the GFARC, developed with the support of the Canadian Red Cross with a distance collaborator Ms Joanna Muise. The primary purpose of the curriculum is to create global...
