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05/09/2011
A text to react as quickly as possible to natural disaters
Most of the time, it appears that countries which are the most likely to undergo a natural disaster do not prepare enough the local population to emergency situations. Today, Haiti seems completely vulnerable to cyclones and floods while the hurricane season is nearly there  

 

After the earthquake in January 2011, Haitian authorities, as well as the local population, understood that it is more than necessary to anticipate natural disasters and to be better prepared to face them. 

 

In order to help Haitians getting the right behaviours when a catastrophe happens, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is putting in place an innovative project consisting in texting people to increase their awareness and alerting them when necessary. 

 

Already used to locate people covered with rubble, SMS is now also used to get the population aware of risks and of the behaviour to adopt when something happens. Indeed, since a few weeks, millions of phone users have received texts like "Are the pipes and trenches around your house cleaned and swept up?" or "If you live in tents, tighten the ropes and the parts exposed to rain and wind". Those advices are sent together with a free phone number (*733) that people can call if they have questions and get answers. 

 

The Red Helmets Foundation, which elaborates innovating technological tools aiming at developing humanitarian teams' capacities, wants to express its great support to this initiative, as well as encouraging its development in other risky areas.

 







30/06/2011
Release of Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière after 547 days of captivity
Held in captivity for a year and a half in Afghanistan along with three Afghan collegues, the reporters Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier have been released.

Reporters Without Borders has broken the news this afternoon: the two journalists and their Afghan collegues have been released . The information has been confirmed by the French government and triggered a standing ovation in the French Parliament.
The two reporters  were kidnapped on the 30th of December 2009 while they were travelling in Afghanistan. Journalist and cameraman, they were reporting fot the French public station France 3.  The Support Committee and Reporters Without Borders have never stopped acting to obtain their release.
 
Transferred to a French base in Kabul, they should land tomorrow in Paris, a year and a half after their abduction.
 
The Red Helmets Foundation has been involved for a long time into the struggle for the liberation of French hostages through the world, and is indeed delighted with this outcome.  Let’s not forget Gilad Shalit, abducted in 2006 and since then prisoner in Gaza; Denis Allex, member of the French external intelligence agency, held in Somalia since July 2009; Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dol and Marc Furrer, hostages since September 2010 in the Sahel; Yves Lambelin, abducted last April in Ivory Coast, along with his late companion Stéphane Frantz di Rippel; and the three aid workers kidnapped in Yemen on the 28th of May 2011. 
 
 
According to Nicole Guedj “Their release brings hope, for all French hostages, and shows that nothing is ever lost”.






28/06/2011
Rally for a year and a half of captivity of Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière
It’s been a year and a half since the two reporters, along with three Afghan colleagues –Mohammed Reza, Ghulam and Satar- were kidnapped while they were travelling in Afghanistan. Journalist and cameraman, they were reporting fot the French public station France 3.  

 A year and a half after this abduction, Reporters without Borders and the Support Committee for Hervé and Stéphane are calling for a massive  rally of support in France. In Paris, a rally will be held on Wednesday 29th of June at 2 pm, place Igor Stravinsky, 4th district. Many personalities will be there to give their support to the hostages and to their families.

 

The Red Helmets Foundation has been involved for a long time into the struggle for the liberation of French hostages through the world.  Let’s not forget Gilad Shalit, abducted in 2006 and since then prisoner in Gaza; Denis Allex, member of the French external intelligence agency, held in Somalia since July 2009; Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dol and Marc Furrer, hostages since September 2010 in the Sahel; Yves Lambelin, abducted last April in Ivory Coast, along with his late companion Stéphane Frantz di Rippel; and the three aid workers kidnapped in Yemen on the 28th of May 2011. 
 

According to Nicole Guedj, President of the Red Helmets Foundation «For all those who were held captive and all the others who still are, we must never ever stop acting and mobilizing for them”.

 

 

 

 

 







07/06/2011
The G8 Youth Summit supports the Red Helmets
  The G8 Youth Summit delegates, gathered in Paris last week, support the creation of Red Helmets at the UN  

 

The 2011 Youth Summit took place from May 29th to June 3rd, organized by Youth Diplomacy.  This year, the theme of the G8 & G20 Youth Summits was “global transition towards a multilateral and sustainable world”. The delegates were in charge to convey the position of the World’s Youth in a Final Communiqué, to be delivered to the French Presidency of the G20-G8. 

The Red Helmets Foundation is calling for a more important commitment of new generations in the implementation of new humanitarian governance and therefore supported this initiative. It presented one of its major projects during a workshop, that is to say the creation of an HQ dedicated to humanitarian action.

 

The delegates agreed that a close coordination is needed at global, regional and national levels in order to back up the work of humanitarian aid, governmental and nongovernmental. Thus, they’ve decided to support Nicole Guedj’s project, and in the Final Communiqué they enlightened that an UN crisis centre dedicated to the organization of humanitarian action could be created.

 

We can only but hope that the members of the G20-G8 will pay attention to the requests of this committed Youth! 

 






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