Finnish Red Cross

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Finnish Red Cross – FRC
Suomen Punainen Risti – SPR
Finlands Röda Kors – FRK
IndustryWell-being
FoundedMay 7, 1877
Headquarters
Helsinki
,
Finland
Key people
Elli Aaltonen, Eero Rämö
ProductsHumanitarian aid
Number of employees
787 (2022), 71,000 members & 30,000 active volunteers
Websitewww.redcross.fi

The Finnish Red Cross (FRC,

General Secretary is Eero Rämö. At the end of 2022, the FRC employed 787 people, of which 204 worked at the headquarters in Helsinki
.

The Finnish Red Cross is based on

organisational structure
has three layers: local branches, regional chapters, and the national headquarters. At the local level, the activities of the branches are determined to a large part by how dedicated their members are.

History

The Finnish Red Cross was founded on May 7, 1877, to care for the wounded and sick soldiers of the

Russo-Turkish War. The FRC was recognized by the ICRC in 1920 and became a member of IFRC in 1922, when Finland ratified the Geneva Conventions.[1]

In 1948, the FRC took the operational responsibility of the blood transfusion services in Finland, which had been operated by the Finnish Scouts since 1935. The FRC Blood Service is a legally independent organization.

Domestic operations

The Blood Service[2] complements the national health services and is at the same time an important component of FRC's overall structure.

The FRC also runs a national

HIV infected
and their families.

The Finnish Red Cross Drug and Alcohol programme includes prevention work and early intervention. FRC has volunteers who act as counsellors in schools and other communities in their own expertise. At the summertime they will be on call almost at hundred of festivals discussing intoxicant use.

The FRC holds a

school meals
can be reduced and served, for example, without salad, bread or milk.

The FRC trains over 80,000 people yearly on the

civic organisations
and over 30,000 volunteers.

The FRC has a national emergency group of psychologists which organises and coordinates psycho-social support in situations they are needed, for example after the Jokela school shooting in 2007.

FRC's Disaster Relief Fund is used to give assistance in accidents and due to social reasons. Domestic aid was about FIM 3.6 million (US$955,000) in 2001.[4]

Finnish Red Cross youth

The organisation also has youth programs and youth based operations. Members between 13 and 29 years of age compose 10% of all members and operate on all levels of the organisation. It was decided in the Finnish Red Cross 2008 national meeting that youth work will be supported also in the future, and that the goal for 2011 is to gain 5% more youth members.

International operations

NGOs to the Finnish national defence. On left, a mortar squad training (part of the activities of National Defence Training Association of Finland, on the right, a joint exercise of the voluntary rescue organization and the Finnish Red Cross with the police and fire departments
.

The Finnish Red Cross gives

Finnish government. In recent years, the European Union has also provided funds.[6]

Disaster relief is given to victims of

earmarked
.

FRC's International Personnel Reserve comprises about 600 professionals trained on FRC's basic and further training courses. Approximately 100 of them work in international assignments every year.

FRC is also a member organisation of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and Reuter's AlertNet network.

References

  1. ^ "ICRC – International Humanitarian Law – Treaties & Documents – Finland". International Committee of the Red Cross. 2005. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  2. ^ "Blood Service – Veripalvelu". Helsinki: Finnish Red Cross Blood Service. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Nälkäpäivä Redcross.fi". Archived from the original on 2008-08-27. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  4. ^ "Finnish Red Cross – From People to People". The Finnish Red Cross. 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  5. ^ "Redcross.fi". Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  6. ^ "Finnish Red Cross – From Disaster Relief and Development Cooperation". The Finnish Red Cross. 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2008-05-25.

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