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The Netherlands Red Cross (Dutch: Rode Kruis) was founded in 1867.It is among the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.It adopts branch governance structure which leads to approximately 214 branches that enables it to serve the whole country.
Johan Hendrik Christiaan Basting (20 September 1817 – 24 September 1870) was a Dutch army surgeon and friend of Red Cross founder Henri Dunant.He played an important role during the establishment in 1863 of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and from that year on he was an advocate for the establishment of a national voluntary aid organization in the Netherlands, the ...
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 Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the national burn center associated with the Red Cross Hospital in Beverwijk, the Central Military Hospital, in Utrecht, and the national Major Incident Hospital (at University Medical Center Utrecht) consisting of a sleeping hospital with a capacity of 100 beds consisting of a mix of intensive ...
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.
Travellers in a Mountainous Landscape with Snow Covered Peaks by van de Velde. Charles William Meredith van de Velde (December 4, 1818, in Leeuwarden – 20 March 1898 in Menton) was a Dutch lieutenant-at-sea second class, painter, cartographer, honorary member of the Red Cross and missionary.
The first king of the Netherlands, William I, founded the Military Order of William and a civilian order, the Order of the Netherlands Lion. His successors founded several orders of merit and some two hundred medals, stars and crosses. The Netherlands never established a colonial order for the Dutch East Indies.
He was president of the Association of the Red Cross (Dutch: Vereniging van het Rode Kruis). De Stuers published several writings, including his Memoires sur la guerre de l'île de Java (a Dutch translation of this work appeared in 1847, titled Gedenkschrift van de oorlog op Java van 1825 tot 1830 and translated by H.M. Lange).