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The American Junior Red Cross was founded in 1917. President Woodrow Wilson announced the opening in a formal proclamation. [1] [2] Henry Noble MacCracken formulated the plan in consultation with other educators. [3] The idea was to allow and encourage juniors to assist their country through the American Red Cross.
In 1919, the Red Cross put together a traveling exhibition of images of the health posters that the Red Cross had made from Upjohn's paintings and began circulating newly made posters that publicized the newly formed Junior Red Cross and encouraged children to join up. One of these posters, "Enrolling for Service" is shown above, Image No. 10.
In October 1918 MacKinnon was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross Society. [5] MacKinnon and Lady Edeline Strickland and the Junior Red Cross at Government House in Sydney in about 1918. She gave her support to self trained nurse Elizabeth Kenny [1] who was caring for polio patients in Queensland using ...
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.
The worldwide structure of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross make this service possible. When new information from former Soviet Union archives became available in the 1990s, a special unit was created to handle World War II and Holocaust tracing services.
The ICRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 191 National Societies. [5] It is the oldest and most honoured organization within the movement and one of the most widely recognized organizations in the world, having won three ...
The German Red Cross (DRK) was founded in 1921, bringing together various independent Red Cross associations that had previously operated autonomously within the German states. These regional branches trace their origins back to the former independent members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The International Committee of the Red Cross is the most honoured organization for the prize and one of the most widely recognized organizations in the world, having won three Nobel Peace Prizes (in 1917, 1944, and 1963). [4] The third time it won, the prize was shared with the League of Red Cross Societies.