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2012–13 South Pacific cyclone season

The US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner confirmed the United States had provided NZ$ 60,000 to the Samoan Red Cross for relief operations.

Anna Mela-Papadopoulou

For her work in Serbia as Head of the newly founded Greek Red Cross she was awarded in December 1914 the Silver Cross of the Order of the Redeemer of the Greek State and in spring of 1915 the Serbian medal of Saint Andrew and the Cross of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, for her services to the captives of the Serbs.

Blood plasma

Following the "Plasma for Britain" invention, Dr. Drew was named director of the Red Cross blood bank and assistant director of the National Research Council, in charge of blood collection for the United States Army and Navy.

Cantonment Public School

The school was located in the old center of Karachi at Frere Street, near Saddar, adjacent to the Cantonment Railway Station, Karachi and to the Red Cross, Pakistan, offices.

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.

Community Motion Picture Bureau

During World War I, the Community Motion Picture Bureau was an American organization that "would supply about four thousand picture shows a week to YMCA, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Jewish Welfare Board, Knights of Columbus or any other accredited organization supplying entertainment for troops." Homer Croy of Missouri was production manager for the agency in Paris, France.

Denham, Western Australia

There is a Crisis centre, two Churches, a unit of the Red Cross, Returned Services League (R.S.L.), plus the normal amenities / facilities / social organisations to be found in any small Australian rural town; for example, two grocery shops, hardware, laundromat, hairdressing salon, two hotels, three caravan parks, various types of holiday accommodation, butcher, tourist and souvenir shops.

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.

Dent McSkimming

During World War II, he served as a Red Cross field representative in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone.

Ecological sanitation

The dissemination programme of ecological dry toilets for Hsinchu County, Guangxi province, one of the poorest provinces in China, started in 1997 with support of UNICEF, SIDA and the Red Cross and has been expanded to 17 provinces until the year 2003.

Fred Pearce

He has also written reports and extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment Programme, the Red Cross, UNESCO, the World Bank, the European Environment Agency, and the UK Environment Agency.

Gary G. Dahl

Gary has been a member of numerous community organizations, including the Illinois Valley Red Cross (board member for six years), Illinois Valley Area Chamber of Commerce (two-time president), Meals on Wheels volunteer, Habitat for Humanity Foundation Board, the Illinois Valley Animal Rescue, the Peru Rotary and the Junior Achievement Board.

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.

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Twardowski's last two movies were 1944 war dramas; first he appeared as a doctor in The Hitler Gang and later as a German Red Cross representative in Resisting Enemy Interrogation.

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.

Heinkel HD 21

One HD 21 (registered SE-ACY) was flown as an air ambulance by Carl Gustaf von Rosen for the Red Cross during the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935.

Hilde Singsaas

She took her education at the University of Oslo, and has worked as an advisor in ECON (2002–2005) and the Norwegian branch of the Red Cross (2005–).

Ivan Petch

He was active in the Ryde local area as Chairman of the Ryde Red Cross Calling Appeal 1978–84, President of the Ryde Lions Club 1985–86, and honorary member of the North Ryde Rotary Club and received a Paul Harris Fellow award.

J. Michael Scott

In 1963, Dr. Scott joined the Peace Corps and served a two-year stint in Cartago, Colombia, where he founded a natural history museum, started a Red Cross swimming program, and coached a number of sports.

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.

Joan Bartlett

During World War II Bartlett worked in the European Broadcasting division of the BBC, and at night was a Commandant of the Red Cross.

Kenyans for Kenya

The "Kenyans for Kenya" initiative is a fundraiser that was started in July 2011 by corporate leaders and the Red Cross in response to media reports of famine and deaths from starvation in Turkana County.

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.

Kurt Löwenstein

A pacifist, Löwenstein applied to join the Red Cross in 1914 in Grodno (Belarus) where he took care of injured soldiers until 1918.

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.

Lake Ridge Academy

She also previously worked for National Arthritis Foundation, the Red Cross, the United Way and the YMCA.

Lawrence Ting Memorial Fund

The fund has donated medical equipment and medicines to Red Cross Vietnam, Quảng Ninh Province, and to Thới Bình District, Cà Mau Province.

Marie Joys

Arntzen was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1923 and the international Florence Nightingale Medal from the Red Cross in 1937.

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.

Nigerian Civil War

Bernard Kouchner was one of a number of French doctors who volunteered with the French Red Cross to work in hospitals and feeding centres in besieged Biafra.

Norley

Arthur Lascelles bought the house in about 1852 and it remained in private ownership until in the Second World War when it was used as a British Red Cross hospital.

North Wilkes High School

Many of the clubs engage in different aspects of philanthropy, such as sponsoring Red Cross blood drives, hosting Christmas parties for underprivileged children, and collecting money for donation to various local charitable organizations.

Nyack, New York

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

Pierre-François, Marquess of Rougé

A century later Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, described this as the first "Red Cross treaty" when he requested funds from the Emperor Napoleon III.

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.

Raymonde Berthoud

She hid Jews during the Second World War from the Gestapo in Budapest and also worked during six years in Budapest for the Swiss Red Cross delegation.

Red River of the North

The city turned to the Canadian Army and the Red Cross for help, and nearly 70,000 people were evacuated from their homes and businesses.

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl

Since 1990 Bergmann-Pohl has been the Patron of the General Disabled Persons in Germany (ABID eV) and since 2003 President of the Berlin Red Cross.

Savoy Company

The Company also makes annual donations to local, charitable organizations, including the Red Cross, the American Cancer Society, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Daemion House, the Brandywine Conservancy, and the Delaware S.P.C.A., among many others.

Seymour Weiss

He was a director of the New Orleans chapter of the American Red Cross, the Chamber of Commerce, and the International Trade Mart.

Sverok

All in all 64 organizations receive this governmental support - this includes both party political organizations, local branches of international organizations such as Red Cross youth organization and the Scouts, disabilities youth organizations and more hobby related organizations such as Sverok.

The Early College at Guilford

Clubs include a Harvard Model Congress team (under the umbrella of Early College Model Congress), Guilford Model Congress, Interact Club, Math Team, a Red Cross club, Interact Service club, an active FIRST Robotics team, Academic Quiz Bowl team, Student Council, Student Human Relations Club, EducateUS, Science Olympiad, Speech and Debate Club, Film Club as well as many other arts and interest clubs.

The Hero's Farewell

Lady Prudence brings Mr. Gerald Maitland, a famous actor, to 165, Eaton Place and persuades Richard to hold a series of historical tableau, entitled The Hero's Farewell, in aid of the Red Cross.

Vicki Draves

She couldn't afford to take swimming lessons until she was 10 years old and took summer swimming lessons from the Red Cross, paying five cents admission to a pool in the Mission district.

Voluntary Medical Service Medal

The reverse features a design of both Geneva and St Andrew's crosses to denote the two qualifying organisations.

Weavers Way Co-op

Recent recipients have included the Red Cross, the Cancer Society, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the African Children's Fund, AIDS, Philabundance and the HEIFER project.


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Abedin Mahdavi

# Humanity in War Holy Children Selection, collective exhibition along with held by International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with photographers James Nachtwey, Franco Pagetti, Antonin Kratochvil, Ron Haviv, Christopher Morris, and by

Abraham Kuhn

During the Franco-Prussian War he served with the Croix-Rouge (French Red Cross) on the battlefields of Wissembourg and Wörth.

Australian women during World War I

Hundreds of other Australian trained nurses served overseas with organisations including the British nursing services, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and the Australian Voluntary Hospital.

Beat Richner

Following this, Richner, working for the Swiss Red Cross, was sent to Cambodia where he worked at the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital in Phnom Penh in 1974 and 1975.

Bekele

Bekele Geleta (born 1944), secretary general of the International Red Cross

Bonabes

Bonabes, Count of Rougé (1891–1975), Secretary General of the Red Cross from 1936 to 1957

Charles Hook Tompkins

Active in business and civic organizations, Tompkins was at the time of his death a Director of Woodward & Lothrop, Riggs National Bank, the Washington Boys Club, and the Master Builders Association, and was Chairman, Metropolitan Washington Campaign, 1956, of the American Red Cross.

Cyprus Red Cross

It originated with the establishment of a branch of the British Red Cross in 1952 which evolved into the Cyprus Red Cross after the independence of the Republic of Cyprus from the United Kingdom in 1960.

Demet Çetindoğan

She is currently the President of the High Advisory Board of TIKAD (Turkish Businesswomem Association), President of Executive Council of YÇD (Creative Children’s Association), Member of World Academy of Art and Science, Founding member of Social Aid and Solidarity Foundation, Member of Chaine des Rotisseurs Association Mondiale de la Gastronomie, Honorary Chairperson of Swiss Red Cross Ball 2013, and a member of Venetian Heritage Foundation.

Finnish Red Cross

Finnish Red Cross Drug and Alcohol programme includes prevention work and early intervention.

Flag of Sardinia

It was said that St. George miraculously appeared on the field of battle and that there were four severed heads of Saracen kings at the end; thus the red cross and white background of the St George's Cross and the heads of four Moors.

Frederick Whyte

Further correspondence suggests that as late as 1958, Sir Frederick still had some association with the Indian Red Cross and St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade.

Fries, Virginia

The Fries Recreation center now hosts The Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts of the USA, Red Cross Training Courses, Hunter Safety Courses,

German rescue swimming badge

The German rescue swimming badge (German: Deutsches Rettungsschwimmabzeichen) is awarded by the Wasserwacht of the German Red Cross and the DLRG for proficiency in rescue swimming skills.

Gobowling.com 400

In 2008, Sunoco, the official NASCAR fuel supplier, based in Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia region of the American Red Cross, agreed to sponsorship of the race and charity events to benefit the American Red Cross South Pennsylvania-Philadelphia region.

Gustav Krist

Krist also travelled with Red Cross delegations across Turkistan and in a bizarre episode entered the service of the Emir of Bukhara who was striving to re-establish his full independence in the collapse of the Russian Empire, and helped him set up a mint.

Hallowell

Sarah Tyson Hallowell (1846–1924), American curator, art agent for the Chicago Art Institute and volunteer for the French Red Cross during World War I.

Hans Jørgen Darre-Jenssen

He received a Red Cross honorary medal, and was decorated as a Commander with Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, the Order of the Polar Star and the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

Iași pogrom

In the town of Roman, there was Viorica Agarici, chairman of the local Red Cross during World War II and one of the 54 Romanian Righteous Among the Nations commemorated by the Israeli people at Yad Vashem.

ICBS

International Committee of the Blue Shield, the "Cultural Red Cross", work to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters

Indian Red Cross Society

A bill to constitute the Indian Red Cross Society, Independent of the British Red Cross, was introduced in the Indian Legislative Council on March 3, 1920 by Sir Claude Hill, member of the Viceroy's Executive Council who was also Chairman of the Joint War Committee in India .

Jane Delano

Jane Delano died in France while on a Red Cross mission, expiring at Base Hospital No. 8 in Savenay of Loire-Inferieure, and was interred in a cemetery in the Loire Valley.

Japanese Red Cross

From the beginning, the Japanese Imperial family, especially Empress Shōken, provided active support for Red Cross activities.

Jerry Noonan

Gerard had four sisters: Mary (Red Cross), Elisabeth (Actress/Real Estate), and film stars Molly O'Day (Hollywood Walk of Fame) and Sally O'Neil, who were well known in their era.

Kawasaki disease

The disease was first reported by Tomisaku Kawasaki in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo, Japan in January 1961, and later published a report on 50 similar cases.

Laurens Shull

Three weeks later, he died at American Red Cross Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly a suburb of Paris, of complications due to bullet wounds.

Lorna Kesterson

U.S. President Harry S. Truman awarded her the Red Cross Certification of Merit in 1947 for rescuing a boy scout from California who was drowning in Lake Mead.

Louise McManus

Florence Nightingale International Red Cross Society Citation and Medal and the

Luca Kleve-Ruud

He is currently working for Dagens Næringsliv, Save the Children, and Samfoto/Scanpix, but has done several assignments for Red Cross, Amnesty and others.

Mexican Red Cross

In 1968, Mexican Red Cross's main hospital opened in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City.

Neuendorf, Bavaria

Participating in local cultural life are the orchestra, the Franconian Costume Orchestra, the “Schönrain Echo”, the sport club, the FC Bayern Fanclub, a Shrovetide Carnival (known in Franconia as Fasenacht) club, the fire brigade, a Red Cross society, a mixed choir, the Catholic Women’s League, the fruitgrowing and gardening club, the ComputerClub Neuendorf and the Kolping Family.

Nursing Students Without Borders

The founding chapter of Nursing Students Without Borders has undertaken a larger initiative to provide support for the construction of a Red Cross medical clinic in San Sebastián, San Vicente, El Salvador.

Occupy Sandy

The coordinators of the Occupy Sandy relief effort have been working in conjunction with supply distributors, such as the Red Cross and FEMA, while relying on the National Guard for security.

Operation Emmanuel

During the first phase two Russian-made MI-17 helicopters from the Venezuelan Military Search and Rescue Team flew into Colombia on December 27, 2007 at 1530 hours with the permission of the President of Colombia and with the International Red Cross (IRC) insignia for a humanitarian mission.

The first phase was to send two Mil Mi-17 helicopters to Colombia carrying five International Red Cross Committee delegates.

Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings

She trained as a nurse at Westminster Hospital and is an active member of the British Red Cross (she was awarded the British Red Cross national Badge of Honour in 1987).

Protocol III

the double emblem (both the red cross and red crescent together) by the Red Cross Society of Eritrea, and the red shield of David by Magen David Adom of Israel.

Red Cross Youth

It represented by the young woman wearing the Red Cross Uniform, alongside members from the St. John Ambulance Brigade and the National Police Cadet Corps, symbolising our nation's youth who are engaged in community service.

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor

In 2002 the footage from the first day of shooting was released as an exclusive fourth disc for the Best Buy Red Cross edition of the Region 1 Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit DVD box set.

Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response

Care International and Médecins sans frontières (MSF) were added in 1997 and the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1999.

Stošíkovice na Louce

Stošíkovice na Louce is also the home for a number of different organisations including a branch of the Czech Red Cross, the Znojemské vinařství, Stošíkovice Accommodations and the nearby Performing Nature Research Centre of Delacon Biotechnik.

Swiss Red Cross

The Swiss Red Cross was established on 17 July 1866 at the instigation of Federal Councillor Jakob Dubs and the Red Cross members Gustave Moynier and Guillaume-Henri Dufour.

The International Tracing Unit

The International Tracing Unit works within the framework of Magen David Adom, as part of the International Tracing Service of the Red Cross.

The Quarry Lane School

Current Upper School clubs include Band, Jazz, Orchestra, Chess, Drama, Photography, Journalism, Economics, Environmental, Red Cross Club, Arts/Literary Journal, Improv Club, Leadership and more.

Wilderness medical emergency

As of 2014, all official BSA high adventure programs (such as Philmont) will require that at least TWO people (either an advisor or a youth participant) in each crew be currently certified in Wilderness First Aid or the equivalent* and Adult CPR/AED from the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, Emergency Care and Safety Institute (ECSI), or American Safety & Health Institute (ASHI).

Wyndham House

Originally, Wyndham House was a project of the British Red Cross although connection with the Red Cross ceased in 1976.

Yvonne Oddon

Freed by the International Red Cross, she arrived back in Paris on 14 April 1945 as part of an exchange negotiated between the Red Cross and Heinrich Himmler.

Zora Mintalová – Zubercová

In the year 2000, she was entrusted by the Supreme Body of the Slovak Red Cross to found the Slovak Red Cross Museum.