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The Red Cross and voluntary service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Henrik Beer
Henrik Beer*
Affiliation:
Secretary-General League of Red Cross Societies
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Extract

When trying, in very popular terms, to explain what the Red Cross is, we sometimes define it in three ways: it is an emblem, a symbol, protecting or designating a movement; it is a world organization with 230 million members, almost all of them volunteers, brought together into 126 National Societies; but it is also an ideal, inspiring action to make this ideal a reality, based on a firm belief in a global, human solidarity, active in the fight against suffering.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 19 , Issue 212 , October 1979 , pp. 240 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1979

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