Youth Red Cross

Youth represent a substantial part of the membership of Red Cross for its humanitarian commitment. Young volunteers can make a significant contribution to meet the needs of the most vulnerable people within their local communities through Youth Red Cross programme. This has been designed to involve young people as much as possible in the movement and its activities not only as workers and also as beneficiaries, but as partners in management.

The programme focuses on the following areas:

• • Promote life and health through training and education on safety, primary health care and healthy living
• • Encourage community service through training and education
• • Disseminate the seven fundamental principles of Red Cross and Red Crescent movement through activities that encourage the Red Cross ideals
• • Promote international friendship with activities that cultivate a humanitarian spirit
• ⦁ Technical support in the development of youth programmes, fund-raising, identification of material and human resources.

Objective of YRC

• • To conduct social and health awareness programmes
• • Awareness on the care of their own health and that of others
• • To encourage the students to extend their humanitarian services to the society
• • To offer First Aid Training to all the YRC volunteers
• • To develop leadership quality among the students
• • The understanding and acceptance of civic responsibilities and acting accordingly with humanitarian concern, to fulfill the same
• • To inculcate in the Youth of our country
• • To understand and acceptance of civic and human responsibilities

Goal of YRC

The Indian Red Cross Society aims to inspire, encourage and initiate at all times, all forms of humanitarian activities so that human suffering can be minimized, alleviated and even prevented, thus contribute to creating a more congenial climate for peace

Regular Activities Of YRC

• • Blood Donation Camp
• • Blood Grouping and Haemoglobin Estimation
• • Conduct Essay competition and award prizes
• • Practice of Health habits
• • Exhibition of film shows, cultural programmes and prevention of diseases

Red Ribbon Club

	Red Ribbon Club is a movement started by the Government of India in schools and colleges through which, students will spread awareness over HIV / AIDS. It envisages to instil charity mind among all the students to extend their able help towards developing healthy life styles, donating blood to all the needy by promotion of Regular voluntary blood donation.

Red Ribbon Club Guidelines

• The significance of Red Ribbon in HIV / AIDS is:
• • Red like Love, as a symbol of passion and tolerance for those affected.
• • Red like Blood, representing the pain caused by many people who have of AIDS.
• • Red like the anger about the helplessness about which we are facing for a disease for which there is still no cure.
• • Red is a sign of warning not to carelessly ignore one of the biggest problems of our time.

Red Ribbon Symbol

The Red Ribbon is a symbol for both drug prevention and for the fight against AIDS. The Red Ribbon foundation is an organization founded in 1993 whose main purpose is the education about prevention of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, Acquired Deficiency Syndrome Related Complex, ARC and AIDS.

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