For more than 100 years The Canadian Red Cross has been active in communities across Canada and around the world, providing prevention programs and relief disaster and conflict. Their area of excellence is * disaster management, * community resilience and Capacity Building * Health and Social program * Violence, abuse and injury prevention * Humanitarian issues international humanitarian law

The Canadian Red Cross Society involved 6,484 employees with 67% in domestic activities and 33% international operations.

Major achievements
In Kenya, The Canadian Red Cross has been involved in mosquito net distribution for seven years protective vulnerable young children and pregnant women for mosquito bites that spread the malaria. They were able to raise 47 million dollars in turn,, it has supported the distribution of seven million nets in 12 campaigns.

The Canadian Red cross helped rebuild Liberian Red Cross , a west African nation of 3,4 million people that endured almost 20 years of vicious civil war which saw a quarter of a million of its citizens killed. Today Liberian Red Cross delivers program for health, water and sanitation, disaster risk reduction and humanitarian values. They respond to the floods that affect each year thousands, help communities rebuild and become more self reliant.
Red Cross in collaboration with International Red cross developed a program Just in case for isolated seniors in case of disaster, creating a network , increasing their safety and also first responders to focus on the more vulnerable.

In Maldives , Canada Red Cross together with Australian Red Cross implemented Tsunami Debris and Waste Management program which improved the lives of almost one quarter of the population and succeeded in cleaning up 74% of the most heavily damaged islands, constracting permanent waste centers and training 1500 community members and over 2000 students for 77 communities in waste management.

Another example of ongoing relationship with other Red Cross societies is Canada work in Honduras and Nicaragua. Across the two countries more than 12000 households and 60 communities have received health care support from 450 trained volunteers.

In Haiti, overall, in the first four month the international Red Cross effort provided medical care to more than 100.000 people and relief supplies to some 350.000 They were involved in everything from health or water sanitation servicing to distributing relief, shelter assessment and communication

In Canada, R.C. is involved in injury prevention programs such as Swimming and water safety programs, first aid programs (they purchased 70 Automated External Defibrillation – a remarkable advancement technique in life saving on cardiac care area).
In area of violence and abuse prevention they delivered seminars to more than 400 000 youth and adults to prevent child maltreatment and create safe environment.
In 2009 Red Cross Alberta initiated an ambitious project to address the propensity of Aboriginal youth on the Blood reserves to gravitate to tobacco, drugs and alcohol and violence. This project has an amazing success: the rate of juvenile arrest has dropped by 47% and school suspensions have been reduced by 75%.

In area of humanitarian law and humanitarian issues they promote 2 programs: Even War have limits and Exploring humanitarian law. It tries to balance military necessity in war with humanitarian objectives including the protection of civilians detainees, sick and wounded soldiers and civilians.