Why Is Red Cross Important In Canada

The Red Cross

The Canadian government and individual Canadians are also frequent supporters of international aid initiatives to assist people in war torn or developing nations. Canada has also been a key endorser to many international treaties and plays a very important role in promoting positive change socially and physically. We all probably have heard about the Red Cross. Some of us might have seen it in action helping people in need all over the world. Red Cross is an international Organization, which is located in almost every country of the world. The Canadian Red Cross is a Canadian humanitarian charitable organization that has a made a goal to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity, not only in Canada but also around the world. The Canadian Red Cross provide a wide range of assistance to millions of people in Canada through health services, injury prevention, violence and abuse prevention, and by responding to and preparing for disasters. Doing this unites many different cultures to work together in the time of new challenges.
On a hot day in June, 1859, at the close of the battle of Solferino, fifteen thousand dead and wounded lay on the battle field.
There were few surgeons, and many of the wounded died before they could receive medical attention. Henri Dunant, a young Swiss man that was travelling through the battle area, was appalled by the carnage and the cries of the wounded. He gathered a volunteer band of women from a nearby Italian village, and under his guidance and example, they nursed the wounded. The event sparked the beginning of The Red Cross Organization and the beginning of social change. Thanks to Dunant’s humanitarian concern, the Red Cross Treaty was adopted by fourteen nations at an international conference at Geneva in 1864, and was revised in 1906. It provides for the protection, in time of war, of relief societies to be organized in various
nations. Social change is the change in the nature, the social institutions, social behaviour, or social relations of a society, community of people, or social structures. The Canadian Red Cross is quite effective in social changes seeing that it surely brings many people together as one to help one another conquer the many problems that are thrown at them. The way the Red Cross has effected social change is in how the world is changing and living patterns are altered they provide support in these changes. Everyone deserves a second chance and some sort of safe environment; the Red Cross helps provide relief of pain and suffering from our people.

Global warming has taken a strong effect on our world. Disasters happen everyday around the world and many innocent lives are taken and many people left to pray for help. The Red Cross has promoted social change in a way that it answers the prayers to many of the damaged people left after a disaster. The Red Cross is a cultural impact as the world units together, despite conflict, and helps to restore what has been lost threw the tragedies of the world.

Henry Dunant witnessed the suffering of 40 000 people, and did something about it. Today the Red Cross has been kept in place to help the millions of people who need help. Despite the differences of cultures and people, the world units as one and to help the people who cannot help themselves in the time most needed.