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American Red Cross (ARC), specifically the biomedical services division. The ARC provides about 35% of transfused blood in the US. [1] America's Blood Centers (ABC), North America's largest network of non-profit community blood centers. [2]
The American Red Cross National Headquarters is located at 430 17th Street NW in Washington, D.C. Built between 1915 and 1917, it serves both as a memorial to women who served in the American Civil War and as the headquarters building for the American Red Cross. [2] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. [2] [3]
Red Cross Aruba: Dutch: Rode Kruis Aruba Papiamento: Cruz Cora Aruba: 31 October 1957: Australian Red Cross: 28 June 1941: Austrian Red Cross: German: Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz: 14 March 1880: Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society: Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Qızıl Aypara Cəmiyyət: 10 March 1920: Bahamas Red Cross 1939: Bahrain Red Crescent Society
The worldwide structure of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross make this service possible. When new information from former Soviet Union archives became available in the 1990s, a special unit was created to handle World War II and Holocaust tracing services.
In 2012, the ICRC together with the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies handled more than 279,000 family messages, facilitated 227,500 phone calls, registered over 3,500 separated children and reunited more than 2,300 children with their families.
An American Red Cross Disaster Action Team responding to a house fire in Detroit, Michigan A Disaster Action Team is the local disaster response unit in chapters of the American Red Cross . American Red Cross chapters have Disaster Action Teams (commonly called "DATs"), which provide disaster relief services on an on-call basis.
During those years, the league issued numerous appeals and showed great efficiency in disaster relief operations. In the late 1950s, there was a marked increase in the number of recognized Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies due to decolonisation. [25] By the end of the 1960s, there were more than 100 societies around the world. [26]
The American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) together developed the National Shelter System (NSS).Under the National Response Plan, now called the National Response Framework, the American Red Cross is the Co-Primary Agency with FEMA responsible for the Mass Care portion of Emergency Support Function #6 - Mass Care, Temporary Housing and Human Services.