social problem in red cross makoko lagos and the intervention processes
INTRODUCTION
The Red Cross is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers in 187 members’ national societies and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. The organisation is formed to help people, manage accident and promote peace we are guided by strategy 2020 our collective plan of major humanitarian and development challenges of the present decade.
This project is to look into the social problem affecting Red Cross, Makoko and the intervention processes adopted by the agency to look into this issues and the successes it has achieved. Social problem can be defined as a condition which exists when a significant number of people and a number of significant people perceive a difference between social ideal and social reality and believe that this difference can be eliminated through collective actions.
A brief history of Red Cross is stated so as to know more about its past. The aims and objectives of this project is to experience and gain practical knowledge of what is been taught in school and it plays a pivotal role in the acquisition of knowledge in the making of a social worker.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF RED CROSS
Until the middle of the 19th century, there were no organized and/or well-established army nursing systems for casualties and no safe and protected institutions to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield. In June 1859, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant travelled to Italy to meet French emperor Napoléon III with the intention of discussing difficulties in conducting business in Algeria, at that time occupied by France. When he arrived in the small town of Solferino on the evening of June 24, he witnessed the Battle of Solferino, an engagement in the Austro-Sardinian War. In a single day, about 40,000 soldiers on both sides died or were left wounded on the field.
The Red Cross is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers in 187 members’ national societies and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. The organisation is formed to help people, manage accident and promote peace we are guided by strategy 2020 our collective plan of major humanitarian and development challenges of the present decade.
This project is to look into the social problem affecting Red Cross, Makoko and the intervention processes adopted by the agency to look into this issues and the successes it has achieved. Social problem can be defined as a condition which exists when a significant number of people and a number of significant people perceive a difference between social ideal and social reality and believe that this difference can be eliminated through collective actions.
A brief history of Red Cross is stated so as to know more about its past. The aims and objectives of this project is to experience and gain practical knowledge of what is been taught in school and it plays a pivotal role in the acquisition of knowledge in the making of a social worker.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF RED CROSS
Until the middle of the 19th century, there were no organized and/or well-established army nursing systems for casualties and no safe and protected institutions to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield. In June 1859, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant travelled to Italy to meet French emperor Napoléon III with the intention of discussing difficulties in conducting business in Algeria, at that time occupied by France. When he arrived in the small town of Solferino on the evening of June 24, he witnessed the Battle of Solferino, an engagement in the Austro-Sardinian War. In a single day, about 40,000 soldiers on both sides died or were left wounded on the field.