Red Cross

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INDEX

1. Introduction

2. Spanish Red Cross
a. Introduction
b. History
c. Fundamental Principles
d. Participation

3. Interview

4. Conclusions

5. Personal opinion

6. Bibliography1. Introduction

The following research paper is about Spanish Red Cross. There has been very interesting the search of the information about this topic, since it is nearby to us and we have easy access to it. For it, I have chosen this topic, besides for being interested in activities that are realized inside this association as the voluntary work or interesting courses as that of first aid.The information has been obtained from the official web of Spanish Red Cross, where is explained widely the origin, functions, members of the organization, objectives… of the above mentioned organization. The rest of the information was obtained by a brief interview to some members of the first-aid post of the Red Cross, in the locality of Las Rozas de Madrid. In addition, I have consultedsome personal opinions by e-mails in the forum of the Red Cross, where I am now inscribed.
2. Spanish Red Cross

a) INTRODUCTION
Spanish Red Cross is a humanitarian organization that was founded in 1863. It is present in more than 186 countries and it possesses more than 100 million voluntary participants in the whole world.

This organization includes everything related with NGO,volunteers, actions in favour of the most vulnerable groups, defense of the human rights, of the environment, the fight against the racial discrimination, the defense of the ethnic minorities, the cooperation with the most disadvantaged countries of the planet… definitively, the solidarity and the commitment with the most disadvantaged.

Spanish Red Cross considers the participation how an essentialaspect, then, it is very interested in the collaboration of people who wants to help them as volunteers and associates.

b) HISTORY

The Red Cross organization in Spain, begins with San Juan de Jerusalem ´s Hospitable Order, in 1864, and was declared “A Society of Public Utility”. Its evolution has been always a constantly adaptation to problems and social necessities than had been produced.Firstly, its action was centred on humanitarian interventions in armed conflicts cases. That so, in 1870, it gave humanitarian help in the Franc/Prussian war, which was the first humanitarian help that Spanish Red Cross produced, and in 1872 it acted in the third Carlist War.

In 1918 takes place a great expansion of the medical establishments.

During the Civil War, from 1936 to 1939, SpanishRed Cross made an important activity, and when this one finished, it carried out the repatriation of the Spanish people who were in the USSR.

In the seventies, the institution completed the first-aid post network on Spanish roads. It was a new answer before communications by road advance, that produced a car increase and, consequent, a traffic accidents increase that need a fast response.

Alsothe tasks of help in the sea began, which are one of the services most known and valued from the public opinion inside the See Cross.

In the sixties and especially in the eighties, Spanish Red Cross activity increased quantitatively, and new actions and services appeared. From1985 a deep reorganization begins with the democratization of the institution, the voluntary participation waspromoted, the aperture to new fields of action, etc.

But it is fundamentally in the nineties when the big modernization of the Institution and its adaptation to new challenges which the Spanish society was bringing up, take place. This consisted in the social intervention with the vulnerable collectives (major persons, refugee and immigrant, affected of AIDS, drug dependent, infancy and youth,...