Your gift will help provide support and hope to someone when they need it most. Create your own Red Cross Parcel by completing the quantities of the items below, then simply fill in your details and select 'Create your parcel'.
Lightweight, and ideal for emergencies. For evacuees or survivors of natural disasters, a foil blanket can mean the difference between life and death.
A spare parts kit and the cost of repairs to an existing borehole within a community will provide up to 1,000 people with safe, clean water
Mosquito nets can reduce the devastating effects of many insect-borne diseases. Prevention is always better than cure.
Tarpaulins make a big difference in an emergency. They can be used to repair homes damaged by earthquakes or floods, and they’re waterproof too. They can even be combined with blankets to make homes waterproof and warm at night.
Provide a school uniform for a child orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV or AIDS.
A jerri can supports an entire family. It’s extremely cost-effective, and can be used for the majority of the family’s emergency operations – cooking, cleaning, drinking. It’s essential.
Thousands of bandages may be used every day in the aftermath of a disaster. Running out can have a devastating effect on survivors in the battle against disease. Help us make sure this doesn’t happen.
Sleeping bag", "For those left without homes by a natural disaster, sleeping bags provide warmth, safety and a chance to rest.
You might be thinking mosquito repellent. But we’re talking mosquitoes, flies, lice and ticks – all of which could transmit diseases like malaria or dengue fever.
A household kit includes four blankets, two sleeping mats, a clothing kit, a jerry can, a bucket, two bars of soap, a kitchen set and three agricultural tools. It’s enough to keep a family warm, dry and clean when they need it.
Where we work, disaster and disease often go hand in hand. Immunisation programmes prevent the spread of disease. It’s that simple.
HIV testing has a dramatic effect on controlling the spread of HIV. This simple kit provides results in ten minutes. Testing changes the lives not just of individuals, but of whole communities.
Many of the people we help, from the UK to Africa and further afield, require immediate rehydration, often for several weeks. Dehydration is a killer. £35 buys sufficient rehydration salts for 100 children to be rehydrated for a week.
Malaria testing is usually a highly scientific process, but this testing kit allows tests to be carried out in the field so people diagnosed can be referred for immediate and often life-saving treatment.
What would £5 buy you to eat? A sandwich and a drink? With £5 we can buy a nutritionally rich food parcel, which is ideal for treating malnourished people.
A cholera kit lets a whole community have clean, uncontaminated water.
It’s simple. Obvious even. But giving tools really does have dramatic consequences for the recipient. A hoe can do so much – from preventing soil erosion to being used for building. We’ve even seen them used to erect shelters during extreme weather.
The old ‘teach a man to fish’ analogy has merit. But people need tools. A shovel is the multi-tool of the disaster zone. From building shelters and digging crops to hygienic burials, shovels allow those affected to start helping themselves.
£20 supports an entire family who have lost everything – providing blankets, candles, rope, a kitchen set, tarpaulins, a lantern, matches and more. You can help a family with nothing start again.
There’s some simple sums here: £1.32 buys 200 water tablets; a water tablet purifies 100 litres of water. That’s less than a penny to provide a week’s worth of clean drinking water for one person.
Make a big difference. £50 provides a family with basic water and sanitation for their whole lives – so they don’t need to rely on others for help.
Plumpy Nut was developed in 1999 and is a superb food for treating very malnourished people. It’s a simple food bar made from peanuts. It’s highly nutritious and because it’s a food bar, relatives can use it to treat malnourished children at home without having to travel to a hospital or clinic.
It takes so much to rebuild lives, especially when a family has lost everything. A kitchen set containing a seven-litre pot and a frying pan, with plates, bowls and cutlery for five is a small start, but it’s an important one.
£100 pays for a medical kit that can treat 1,000 people at a clinic for one month. It’s a rare chance for you to help so many people.
Across much of the world, temperatures may drop to around freezing at night and just one blanket can save a life, night after night.
£5 can save a child’s life in a disaster and buy them safe water, sanitation and food.
The installation of a safe water source system will help provide clean water for up to 4,000 people – often a whole community.
The basics in a box. Washing powder, soap, toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo and sanitary pads. Enough for three months. But they’re basics which can save lives in extreme conditions.
£10 provides a trained Red Cross volunteer with a complete first aid kit. Anywhere in the world, lives can be saved, because of you.
Four bags of cement will help construct latrines and allow for safer and more hygienic disposal of human waste.
This isn’t just any bucket. It’s stackable and so cheap to transport. It has a clipped cover and cap to keep the water pollution-free and help families collect clean drinking water. And it’s built to last.