For over 100 years, Red Cross has stood with Australians through all kinds of disasters and crises; wars, fires, and floods. The Coronavirus Pandemic was no exception.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, we were there to help the people who needed us most; people isolated from family and friends, new migrants, people who had lost their jobs and people in hotel quarantine.
What did that help look like?
- Hundreds of thousands of wellbeing calls to Australians in hotel quarantine.
- Regular zoom check ins with isolated people.
- Providing hygiene packs and health information to remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.
- Providing food, hygiene items and health information to young people experiencing homelessness.
- Emergency relief funds, complex case work, food parcels and service referrals to 131,000 people on temporary visas or who had no visas and were facing destitution.
- Disseminating daily community health and hygiene information to refugee and asylum seeker communities in 18 different languages.
