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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.
The German Red Cross (DRK) was founded in 1921, bringing together various independent Red Cross associations that had previously operated autonomously within the German states. These regional branches trace their origins back to the former independent members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
The American Red Cross is planning to install free smoke alarms in homes and volunteers are needed in Marion for the event on April 20.
The Red Cross is asking people to apply to become volunteers. In addition to being a blood donor, options include being a blood trans portation specialist, a member of the action team, or a ...
Jackie Otte, an American Red Cross mental health volunteer, consoles a fire victim. The Western Lake Erie/North Central Ohio chapters of the Red Cross seeks licensed medical volunteers to assist ...
The Red Cross Red Crescent is the world's largest humanitarian network with: [31] Nearly 11.6 million volunteers; More than 473,000 paid staff; More than 165,000 local Red Cross and Red Crescent units/ branches; 19.4 million people having donated blood to National Society blood services worldwide
Crews set up base camps, waiting for some of the 280 closed roads to reopen, as Red Cross planes and helicopters searched for people stranded in the towns near the Appalachian Mountains, said ...