Violence and abuse prevention programs

The Canadian Red Cross has developed these violence and abuse prevention programs as a way to remind Canadians that abuse is a preventable tragedy. The results of violence and abuse can be devastating to a family or individual and can result in some horrifying situations. Some individuals are severely affected by such events that can result in depression, adult crime, drug abuse and most often suicide.The Canadian Red Cross has developed a series of these programs that include presentations on abuse that have now been provided in educational programs.In schools they provide these programs especially on bullying as a way to reach out to kids and let them know they should always tell an adult when they witness or become a victim to bullying. They even partnered up with Hockey Canada after former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy had told about his sexual abuse by a former coach.This goes to show that the Red Cross helps with emergencies both caused by natural disasters and human made disasters. Violence and abuse can lead to both physical and psychological injury. For more information on these programs visit www.redcross.ca.

Continued Haiti relief needed from the Red Cross

On the main website for the Red Cross there are many updated stories of the continued efforts to try to save the Haiti community. "Over the past month, the focus has been on emergency relief-medical care, clean water and the distribution of basic relief items." Although the earthquake is long over they still face many hardships ahead including Haiti's rain season which brings up to five centimeters of rain per day. This only adds to the struggles faced to recontruct the community. Around 95,000 people in the area have been provided with shelter items by Red Cross Crescent workers including tarps, tents and tools. "They have also provided as much as 1.3 million litres of clean water and digging latrines each day at 12 camps." These efforts are still not nearly enough to save the community from the other challenges it faces such as the spread of disease from the solid waste building up in the camps. The Red Cross has developed a strong commitment to helping these people to build a stronger and more resiliant community.

Recently, according to the red cross website, they have reached a goal in Mozambique. That was a goal of 400,000 beds complete with fitted mosquito nets. This would have no doubt stimulated the local economies with the uprise of healthy people returning to the work place. This would have also gotten some other people back to work in the process of ordering 400,000 beds and nets. There would have been a need for people to build them and people to send and ship the beds. at a cost of about 8.00 per net, its a very small price to pay for a much better chance at survival for many people.

The red cross organization also take a huge part in the rebuilding of many countries in which they work. These projects often do much more then rebuild communities, they stimulate entire groups of people to build and fend more for themselves. They build schools and public buildings. These in turn cause growth in the community by creating needs for all sorts of other things. So to relate it back to business you need look no further then your donation, when you give that money by way of the multiplier effect will trickle down in the areas that the red cross operates in. The money spent on these projects not only help for a short while, they help and sustain the communities that they work in for many time to come.

Current Activities of Red Cross

As we talked about the history and future we should know what's going on in present . Red cross is helping in haiti and Chile since the massive earthquakes happened there.Large parts of Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince have been destroyed by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake on 12 January. Here is some description of their work talked by pictures theirself.

Widline S. received clean drinking water from the

Red Cross in Camp Daihatsu, Port-au-Prince.

Three weeks after the earthquake, the Red Cross

Red Crescent is distributing 1,000,000 litres of

clean water a day. Water distribution points have

been set up in 88camps in Port-au-Prince.

(p-HTI0464).
Photo: Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross






Haitian Red Cross volunteer Jean Zacharie delivers first aid to a one month old on 15 January 2010 - Deborah Fatima. Her mother died in the 7.3 magnitutde earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010.

French doctor Aleth Abidine is working in a Red Cross mobile clinic in Croix des Prèt. (p-HTI0194)
Photo: Noora Kero/Finnish Red Cross

The Red Cross has been distributing food, hygiene articles and blankets to the earthquake survivors. (p-CHL0015)

Photo: IFRC







Red Cross have been helping people, saving then giving then food, medical, clean water, clothes and taking care of these people in every possible way with limited resources. That is only possible if we donate money or anything usefull we can to them ,as their organization works on donations.If, we can't go there and help then save lives but we can sit here and donate money that can save lives there.

Refrence link : http://www.ifrc.org/photo/

World Water Day

On March 22, it is World Water Day, the International Federation of The Red Cross wishes to promote awareness, as well as, continue to help reach the UN Millennium Development Goals, which include water and sanitation aspects. Within their Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion are staggering statistics:

-Clean water is not available to over one billion people

-More than two billion people do not have basic sanitation access

-Due to the lack of safe drinking water, inadequate hygiene, and poor sanitation over four billion people die each year

-In addition, around four thousands children die daily due to these same conditions

For more information on World Water Day, and global agreements regarding clean water, proper sanitation, and adequate hygiene visit http://www.ifrc.org/what/health/water/index.asp.

History of Red Cross

"As we talk about future its very impostant to know about the history of this international organization; how it started, by whom ,when and why are the some qestions that come in our minds so here is the answer."On a hot day in June, 1859, at the close of the battle of Solferino, fifteen thousand dead and wounded lay on the battle field.. There were few surgeons, and many of the wounded died before they could receive medical attention. A young Swiss, Henri Dunant, travelling through the battle area, was appalled by the carnage and the cries of the wounded. He gathered a volunteer band of women from a nearby Italian village, and under his guidance and example, they nursed the wounded. Henri Dunant wrote a pamphlet about the terrible scenes he had witnessed. He claimed that much death and suffering could be avoided if an organization were founded to protect the wounded in battle, “without distinction of nationality’.Thanks to Dunant’s humanitarian concern, the Red Cross Treaty was adopted by fourteen nations at an international conference at Geneva in 1864, and was revised in 1906. It provides for the protection, in time of war, of relief societies to be organized in various nations. The Swiss flag, with its colours reversed, was adopted as the Red Cross emblem. Now, under the Red Cross banner, the hearts of many nations unite in the service of humanity in times of war or national disaster. In every war, this banner of mercy is respected by friend and foe alike. The British Red Cross Society was founded in 1870, and incorporated in 1908. Although the British Forces have medical services of their own, in time of war the Red Cross provides necessary further assistance. "

Refrence links : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XcVFruHMk

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