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On October 29, 1863, delegates adopted 10 resolutions that were aimed to help injured soldiers (Greenspan, 2013). This created the International Red Cross. Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross (ARC) in 1881. The International Red Cross inspired Clara while she was on a trip in Europe. She brought the model of the International Red Cross back to the United States and led an organization through its first relief missions. They assisted the United States in the Spanish-American War in 1898. The ARC is a part of over 175 national societies in aiding victims through disasters. The ARC consists of about half a million volunteers and 35,000 employees. It is also made up of more than 700 local chapters across the country, which received funding from the National Red Cross. It received its first congressional charter in 1900 and its second in 1905 (American Red Cross, 2013). The ARC has won more Nobel Peace Prizes than any other organization (Greenspan, 2013).
The ARC has been an integral part of the United States and has helped this country in its darkest hours. It was part of World War I and II and helping the wounded on the field of battle as well as the healing at home. Many members of the military owe their lives to the Red Cross. For example, in World War II, the ARC signed up more than 100,000 nurses for military duty and delivered 27 million packages to our troops and to prisoners of war.
The mission of the Red Cross, according to their website, is comprised of five service areas. The first mission area is disaster relief in the United States. They respond to thousands of disasters in the U.S. every year. They are mentioned in the local papers almost every week when they respond to natural disasters ...
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Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 and died on April 12, 1912, she was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. She had a relationship with John J. Elwell, but never married. North Oxford, Massachusetts.
The American Red Cross is a nonprofit organization that has made its mission to help people worldwide and help make our world a better place. The American Red Cross has supported the military families of America, provided Disaster Relief, Health and Safety Training and Services, Blood Drives, and other endless services since 1881. Clara Barton and a few close associates founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1881.
After returning home to the United States, she began to build the American branch of this organization up. The American Red Cross Society was founded in 1881 and Clara Barton became its first president. Clara Barton resigned from the American Red Cross in 1904 because of financial mismanagement. She never took a salary for her work within the organization and sometimes used the funding she got to continue to support the cause. Barton died at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, on April 12,
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and served as the president for the next 23 years, until 1904. During the Civil War, Barton served as an aid to wounded soldiers, but before she went to the battlefield, collected bandages and supplies to deliver to the soldiers of both the North and the South. During her time serving on the battlefield, she was given the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield.” In 1869, she went to Geneva, Switzerland, where she learned about the Treaty of Geneva, which was their Red Cross, which provided relief for sick and wounded soldiers. Her inspiration was set off when Barton discovered that the United States did not sign the treaty or have a way to support the soldiers, so decided that she was going to take it into her own hands and campaign until the treaty was ratified and eventually the American Red Cross was formed. Clara Barton was passionate about America having an organization to help the soldiers, so she went for it, succeeded and now is well known. The American Red Cross is still alive today, and has changed the lives of soldiers by having nurses there to help them when they have been wounded from war and giving help to those in distress.
Their work and basis is deeply rooted in its Catholic origins and it's deep basis in the Exodus paradigm and the Mosaic covenant. The Catholic Relief Services commitment to the poor and destitute in aiding them around the world through several means while still maintaining strong moral and physical standpoint by sticking to teachings of the Bible shows kinds of things that they can do using the teachings of Jesus. The organization does great work to help those all over the world affected by natural disaster.They have the strength to be a solid Catholic Institution but the ability to enact change all over the world. The fact that they keep the Catholic Social teaching principles in their mission statement and listed the forefront of their website shows how deeply committed they are to it as an organization. Come to realize how important the work of the Catholic Relief Services is even though it may seem large-scale, without the large-scale,the small-scale is ineffective.Create way for one to continue the work of the Catholic Relief Services end or to benefit it would be to donate to their cause so they can give supplies to the needy, or to volunteer as a ground soldier to the Catholic Relief Services. the two things the Catholic Relief Services cannot live without our manpower and supplies;the Catholic Relief Services is purely administrative and without these it is unable to function. Overall the Catholic Relief Services is a administrative juggernaut organizing aid to those in need around the
Clara Barton was the president of the red cross organization in 1904. Barton has dedicated herself to this organization. She nursed soldiers that had been wounded from the battle. According to barton she feels “ I may be compelled to face danger, But never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them ”. She was the president of red cross and no one was going to stop her from helping her people. Clara Barton was important to american history because she created the Red Cross Aid.
The Red Cross has always been handled by volunteers and charities. It doesn’t work as a business but as a humanitarian organization. It is impartial, neutral, independent, voluntary, united and universal.
In the years of the Vietnam War, we can find a good example of what groupthink can do to a force as powerful as the United States. President Johnson drug the troops to such fate and struggle thinking that the United States would determine the course of events in Vietnam. The U.S. declared war to Vietnam under the excuse of defending their ally, South Vietnam, and to prevent further aggression. The Congress agreed and voted in favor of military action against North Vietnam because “the overall effect was to demonstrate before the world the unity of the American people in resisting Communist aggression” (Bacevich, 2014).
In conclusion, I will like to acknowledge Doctors Without Borders for all the work that they are doing around the world, they are the real definition of a hero, in the way they put their self on the line to help
So the Red Cross helps with natural disasters but is that all? No, it is not, the Red Cross will help anything that involves human suffering such as food shortages. One example are the southern countries in Africa such as Angola, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Malawi
Honesty means being truthful and trustworthy and not trying to hide anything (Bethel, 2015). However, prior efforts to provide aid in times of disaster have left many in the public wondering what the American Red Cross’s motives are.
Imagine an entire community of individuals, from doctors to massage therapists, that does not answer to any political entity or religion, yet still manages to collectively provide free healthcare services to millions of individuals in need every year. Medecins Sans Frontiers, or popularly known in the US as Doctors Without Borders, is an international NGO that does just that. The organization began in 1971 when a group of French doctors and journalists recognized the dire need for assistance in healthcare during times of war, famine, and flood in Nigeria and Pakistan. Since then, it has expanded and provides aid to over 60 countries in underserved regions across Central America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as well and developed a mission “to deliver emergency [medical] aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care.”(www.msf.org)
VI. Some individuals requiring blood are surgical patients; burn victims; accident victims; anemics'; hemophiliacs; seriously ill babies; and persons suffering from leukemia, cancer, kidney disease and liver disease.
1 The International Committee of Red Cross: The ICRC is responsible for providing people who’re bearing the brutalities of war, and internal-conflicts, with protection as well as aide in the form of
First Aid is the initial care for an illness or injury. First Aid is usually performed in emergency situations by a non-professional person. First Aid can be performed on animals although it is generally meant for the care of humans. Going back to the beginning of the practice of First Aid, it was first practiced by the religious knights in the Eleventh Century. Care was provided to the Pilgrims and Knights as well as training on how to care for common battle wounds. Aid came to a halt during the High Middle Ages and organizations were not seen again until 1859. A few years later, a few nations met in Geneva and formed what we know to be the Red Cross. The main purpose of the Red Cross was to give Aid to the sick and wounded soldiers during battle. In 1878, the formation of St. John Ambulance was put into effect. The ambulance was generally for aid to people in emergencies. Large railway centers, mining districts and police forces were the first to pair with ambulances. Also in 1878 the concept of teaching First Aid to civilians was announced. Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd and Dr. Coleman performed the first First Aid class with a curriculum that they had formed. First Aid training began to grow in the UK with high risk activities.