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12 unusual facts about International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement


Badr Airlines

Today, Badr Airlines operates flights on behalf of UN MovCon, WFP, UNICEF, UNOPS, ESS, MSF, FAO and IRC, using aircraft and helicopters covering most areas of Sudan.

Čegrane

During the Kosovo War, Čegrane was used a massive makeshift camp was quickly constructed for ethnic Albanian refugees, set up by the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières in the area called Rudine.

Croix-Rouge

The name of the station comes from the intersection named Croix-Rouge situated at the beginning of the rue du Cherche-Midi and is unrelated to the organization founded after the construction of the station (International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, often referred to as the Croix-Rouge in French).

Edith Roelker Curtis

During the First World War, Edith volunteered for the Red Cross.

Kingstown Radio

Kingstown grew in strength and in 1975 the Wellington Street studio was vacated and the organisation moved to 98 Beverley Road, above the Red Cross offices.

Ladora Savings Bank

The building remained a center of life in Ladora: during various times in its history, it served as a community center, housing a Red Cross office during World War II and a civil defense shelter during the Cold War; it was also a polling place for many years.

Mary Burnett Talbert

Served as a Red Cross nurse and YMCA secretary in Romagne, France during World War I; offered classes to African-American soldiers; sold thousands of dollars of Liberty Bonds as a traveling speaker served on the Women's Committee of National Defense.

Musée Rath

Between 1916 and 1919 the museum was closed and the building was used for the Red Cross's International Prisoners-of-War Agency.

Nyack, New York

Camp Shanks, one of the military's major wartime staging areas, relied heavily on the Red Cross volunteers and services.

Princess Lalla Malika of Morocco

She is the chairwoman of the Moroccan Red Crescent.

Raymond Wilson Chambers

He served in World War I, with the Red Cross in France, and in Belgium with the YMCA/B.E.F. Chambers became Quain Professor of English at UCL in 1922.

Thomas St. Angelo

From 1945 to 1951 and again in 1958, St. Angelo chaired the Barron County, Wisconsin chapter of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.


Chicago Hearing

The organization, along with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies, was asked by the United Nations to organize relief work for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.

Dennis Mendiola

In late 2004 as twin killer typhoons Yoyong and Winnie ravaged southern Luzon in the main Philippine Island, “Donate-a-Load” was launched whereby millions of Filipinos where encouraged to donate their call credits by simply texting variable amounts to a Red Cross short code.

Grande Hotel Beira

According to the local Red Cross, there is a high risk of cholera, diarrhoea, HIV/AIDS, malaria and scabies in the Grande Hotel.

Heimito von Doderer

Stranded in Samara, Doderer and his comrades again turned to the East, and found refuge in a Red Cross camp near Krasnoyarsk, cared for by Elsa Brändström.

Jan Kobylański

In 2005, Mikołaj Lizut wrote in the Gazeta Wyborcza that Jan Kobylański falsified documents of the Red Cross, that he was a prisoner at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen, Gross Rosen, and Dachau concentration camps.

Peace X Peace

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Smith Melton gathered experts in peace and women's rights from around the world (including Isabel Allende, the Chilean novelist; Susan Collin Marks, the Australian-born co-founder of Search for Common Ground; and Fatima Gailani, the Afghan head of the Red Crescent) to discern a women's response to the September 11 attacks.