A NNUAL R EPORT 2005
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E-mail/R-phost: [email protected] www.redcross.ie Irish Red Cross Registered Charity Number: CHY 3950 Crois Dhearg na hÉireann HUMANITY: THE RED CROSS ENDEAVOURS - IN ITS INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CAPACITY - TO PREVENT AND ALLEVIATE HUMAN SUFFERING WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND. ITS PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT LIFE AND HEALTH AND TO ENSURE RESPECT FOR THE HUMAN BEING. IMPARTIALITY: THE RED CROSS MAKES NO DISCRIMINATION AS TO NATIONALITY, RACE, RELIGIOUS BELIEF, CLASS OR POLITICAL OPINIONS. IT ENDEAVOURS TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF INDIVIDUALS, BEING GUIDED SOLELY BY THEIR NEEDS, AND TO GIVE PRIORITY TO THE MOST URGENT CASES. NEUTRALITY: THE RED CROSS MAY NOT TAKE SIDES IN HOSTILITIES OR ENGAGE IN CONTROVERSIES OF A POLITICAL, RACIAL, RELIGIOUS OR IDEOLOGICAL NATURE. INDEPENDENCE: THE RED CROSS MUST ALWAYS MAINTAIN THEIR AUTONOMY SO THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE AT ALL TIMES TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RED CROSS PRINCIPLES. VOLUNTARY SERVICE: THE RED CROSS IS A VOLUNTARY RELIEF ORGANISATION, AND IS NOT PROMPTED IN ANY MANNER BY DESIRE FOR GAIN. UNITY: THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE RED CROSS SOCIETY IN ANY ONE COUNTRY. IT MUST BE OPEN TO ALL. IT MUST CARRY OUT ITS HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT ITS TERRITORY. UNIVERSALITY: THE RED CROSS IS A WORLDWIDE INSTITUTION IN WHICH ALL SOCIETIES HAVE EQUAL STATUS AND IN WHICH ALL SHARE EQUAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES TO HELP EACH OTHER. (RED CROSS PRINCIPLES) Contents
3 Geneva Conventions 4 Red Cross Principles 5 Chairman’s Foreword 6 Secretary General’s Foreword 7 World Activities 9 Ireland 10 Ireland Action 11 Red Cross People 12 Caring in the Community 13 Training 15 Youth 16 Competitions 17 Competitions Winners 19 President’s Support 20 Search and Rescue 21 Overseas 23 Tsunami Response 24 Maldives & Indian Ocean Islands 25 Indonesia 27 Sri Lanka 29 Niger & Burkina Faso 31 Sudan 33 Liberia & Uganda 34 Malawi 35 Pakistan 36 Iran 37 USA & Colombia 38 Other Countries & Reuniting Families 39 Fundraising & Communications 41 Donors 43 Summary Accounts 45 Photograph Captions GENEVA CONVENTIONS
I: AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED AND SICK IN ARMED FORCES IN THE FIELD
II: AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF WOUNDED, SICK AND SHIPWRECKED MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES AT SEA
III: TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR
IV: PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME OF WAR
PROTOCOL I: THE PROTECTION OF THE VICTIMS OF INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS
PROTOCOL II: THE PROTECTION OF THE VICTIMS OF NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS
3 Red Cross Principles
HUMANITY: The Red Cross endeavours - in its international and national capacity - to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found. Its purpose is to protect life and health and to ensure respect for the human being.
IMPARTIALITY: The Red Cross makes no discrimination as to nationality, race, religious belief, class or political opinions. It endeavours to relieve the suffering of individuals, being guided solely by their needs, and to give priority to the most urgent cases of distress.
NEUTRALITY: The Red Cross may not take sides in hostilities or engage at any time in controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature.
INDEPENDENCE: The Red Cross must always maintain its autonomy so that it may be able at all times to act in accordance with Red Cross principles.
VOLUNTARY SERVICE: The Red Cross is a voluntary relief organisation not prompted in any manner by desire for gain.
UNITY: There can be only one Red Cross Society in any one country. It must be open to all. It must carry on its humanitarian work throughout its territory.
UNIVERSALITY: The Red Cross is a world-wide institution in which all societies have equal status and share equal responsibilities and duties in helping each other.
4 Chairman’s Foreword
This year saw the Irish Red Cross respond swiftly and professionally to one of the worst-ever recorded disasters, the tsunami that struck 12 countries in Asia and Africa on 26 December 2004.
The immediate response of the Irish Red Cross saw more funds raised than at any other time in its history – securing a total of €31 million for the people affected. This response would not have been possible were it not for the immense generosity of our members and our donors who rallied to the call for help in the days following the disaster. Our own members, the gardaí, civil defence, businesses and private individuals worked around the clock to raise as much funds as possible to help the people of the stricken countries. From large corporate bodies to private individuals, the scale and speed of the response was outstanding. It is this spirit that enabled us to respond to the other major disasters overseas throughout 2005, a year that was scarred by human sadness. These included the chronic food shortages that swept through Niger and other countries in Sahel Africa, the devastating Hurricane Katrina that struck New Orleans and elsewhere in the United States of America and the earthquake that ravaged Pakistan. And it is also this spirit that enabled our volunteers throughout Ireland to respond to the needs at home. Poignantly, as the eyes of the world trailed the work done by the Red Cross in the tsunami-affected countries, here in Ireland members of the Irish Red Cross from all over the country joined colleagues in Cork working on the search for the missing Middleton schoolboy Robert Holohan. This search, which ultimately ended with the tragic discovery of young Robert’s remains, was one of scores of search and rescue operations undertaken by Irish Red Cross volunteers throughout the year. 2005 saw the first call-out for our new inshore lifeboat on Loughs Corrib and Mask in the west while the round-the-clock vigilance of our long-serving mountain rescue volunteers saw them respond in all weathers to search for lost and injured hillwalkers. Our ability to provide these services relies on the support of the Irish government, particularly the Department of Defence, the Department of Health and Children, and Irish Aid (formerly Development Co-operation Ireland) as well as on the generosity of numerous donors. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to them and I would also like to thank each and every individual who gave their time either as Irish Red Cross members, or as volunteers on special projects such as the tsunami and thank the thousands of people who supported our work by giving sums of money, both large and small, that enabled our work this year in assisting those who were most in need.
David Andrews, Chairman
5 Secretary General’s Foreword The year 2005 has been one of the busiest and most productive on record, for the Irish Red Cross, with demonstrable growth in all areas.
Starting with the tsunami, the year '05 saw increases in human suffering and a commensurate need for faster, more effective responses than ever before. The Irish Red Cross played a much greater role in this response than at any time in recent years, thanks to the hard work and dedication of our members and our staff. Undoubtedly, the sum of €31 million raised in public donations for the tsunami was one of the greatest single achievements of the year. To ensure that money was and continues to be wisely invested, the Irish Red Cross developed its own overseas operations, for the first time since World War II. Following the success of these operations in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, we pursued a pro-active policy in this regard, developing distinctively Irish Red Cross operations in Niger and Malawi as well as winning major public support for our appeals to assist people in Pakistan and in New Orleans. Income for specific appeals rose tenfold on the previous year, totalling more than €35.7 million. The upward trend in figures for our overseas activities was matched by comparable growth in activities here in Ireland and for our Tracing and Red Cross Message services that cross borders. This year new Tracing enquiries more than doubled and new enquiries to our Red Cross Message service rose by a third. The high standard of our training for the public, for workers and for our own members saw demand rise in these areas, with strong growth especially in Occupational First Aid which rose by 48%. Training for our own volunteers grew also, with the number of qualified trainers up significantly. Meanwhile, the number of volunteers reaching the new top standard of First Aid - Emergency Medical First Responder rose by a quarter on last year. Training also grew in areas beyond our traditional base of First Aid. Figures show an increase of 45% in training in Therapeutic Hand Care and the numbers for those being trained as Carers also rose by just under a third. I would like to welcome new members to the Irish Red Cross and to thank both them and our existing members for all their hard work throughout the year, particularly those who serve on our national Executive Committee, Central Council and Working Groups. I would also like to thank our staff whose unceasing work has enabled the organisation to achieve so much. Finally, I offer my sincerest thanks to all our donors, large and small, private, state and corporate for their generous funding of our programmes throughout 2005.
Carmel Dunne Secretary General
6 Irish Red Cross Crois Dhearg na hÉireann
IRELAND PROFILE 14.5% increase across all training courses; 48% increase in workplace • Ireland First Aid training; €3.7 million investment in ambulance fleet; 40% increase in Community Care programmes; 20% increase in Mountain Rescue operations; • Monaco First call-out for new inshore rescue boat; Youth camps and • Louisiana conventions Irish Red Cross Irish Red Cross Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Crois Dhearg na hÉireann New Branches: 6 BURKINA FASO PROFILE MONACO PROFILE Operation: Irish Aid funded Operation: First Aid at Irish Red Cross food assistance Monaco Grand Prix Crois Dhearg na hÉireann programmes reaching some 140,000 persons USA PROFILE Location: Burkina Faso Operation: General Irish Red Cross emergency assistance, • Niger Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Post-Hurricane Katrina Irish Red Cross • Burkina Faso Location: Louisiana Crois Dhearg na hÉireann DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS: • Liberia LIBERIA PROFILE ASIA: 66.4% Irish Red Cross • Colombia Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Operations: Transport and AFRICA: 11.9% Logistics; Water & COLOMBIA PROFILE sanitation EUROPE: 13.3% Operation: Protection and Location: Monrovia Irish Red Cross assistance to civilians THE AMERICAS: 8.4% Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Location: Barranquilla NIGER PROFILE Operations: Emergency aid provision (food distribution); Livelihoods, health, relief and disaster preparedness World Location: Agadez Province Irish Red Cross Crois Dhearg na hÉireann
UGANDA PROFILE Operations: Assessments Activities for aid distributions IRISH RED CROSS 2005 Location: Gulu and Kitgum
“THE RED CROSS ENDEAVOURS - IN ITS INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CAPACITY - Overseas Delegates
7 Irish Red Cross Crois Dhearg na hÉireann SLOVAKIA PROFILE First Aid Convention in Europe (FACE). Dublin Borough represented the Irish Red Cross at the annual All-European First Aid championships. Irish Red Cross Limerick, who won the President's Perpetual Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Trophy in 2005 (p18), are the PAKISTAN PROFILE 2006 Irish Red Cross FACE representatives Operations: Emergency aid • Slovakia provision (tents, hygiene Location: Svidnik parcels, food and shelter materials); Aid delivery (logistics, air operations); Media Service Irish Red Cross Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Locations: Muzzafarabad, Islamabad, Geneva SUDAN PROFILE Irish Red Cross Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Operations: Provision of two specialist delegates to • Iran SRI LANKA PROFILE Irish Red Cross develop health programmes Crois Dhearg na hÉireann and water & sanitation Operations: School- services • Pakistan building; INDONESIA PROFILE Education projects; Irish Red Cross Location: Darfur Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Hospital refurbishment; Operations: Emergency Housing reconstruction food & aid distribution; Emergency healthcare; TSUNAMI REGION • Sudan Location: Batticaloa, Logistics (transport and Kalutara, Ampara, Irish Red Cross storage of aid); Shelter; Countries Affected: 12 Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Panadura Secondary Education; Information Programme Countries receiving IRAN PROFILE • Sri Lanka Locations: Banda Aceh, international Operations: Construction of Aceh Province Red Cross/Red Crescent two new schools in Bam assistance: 10 • Uganda Location: Bam • Maldives People helped: 1.7m
Countries targeted by the • Indonesia Irish Red Cross: 3 Irish Red Cross Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives Crois Dhearg na hÉireann Number of Projects: 7 • Malawi MALDIVES PROFILE Operations: Allocated funding for water and sewerage projects; Irish Red Cross Provision of specialist Crois Dhearg na hÉireann delegate in the field of Information and Reporting MALAWI PROFILE Location: Guraidhoo, Maafushi, Kudahuvadhoo Operations: Development of water & sanitation facilities; Training local people in the development and maintenance of the new facilities Location: Lilongwe Province
- TO PREVENT AND ALLEVIATE HUMAN SUFFERING WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND...”
Delegate Location Place of Origin Top row left to right: Liam McCarton Sri Lanka Kildare Daniel Prewitt Indonesia United States Brian Kelly Sri Lanka Roscommon Daire O’Reilly Indonesia & Uganda Dublin Joe Lowry Ukraine & Maldives Dublin Seamus Meagher Russia & Liberia Co. Tipperary Gary Buchanan Liberia Co. Down Susanna Cunningham Indian Ocean Islands Dublin John Roche Niger Dublin Bottom row left to right: Owen Frazer Colombia Dublin Jackie Queally Sri Lanka Clare Johannes Hemelaar Sri Lanka Netherlands Mary Rose Byrne Indonesia Dublin Vivien Lusted Indonesia/ Sudan Co. Galway Donal O’Suilleabháin Liberia & Sudan Co. Sligo Denis Kaiser Afghanistan Dublin John Rowland Angola, Pakistan & Indonesia Dublin Willie Norton Jordan & Pakistan Dublin
8 Ireland “Through its network of over 4,000 volunteers, and with the support of state bodies and some corporate funding, the Irish Red Cross continues to rise to the unique challenge of providing humanitarian assistance at home as well as overseas ...”
“2005 WAS ONE OF THE BUSIEST, MOST PRODUCTIVE YEARS ON RECORD FOR THE
COUNTRY PROFILE New Branches ‘05
Area 70,280 sq km The number of new Branches trebled in 2005 Population 4,062,235 • Ballaghadareen on the previous year, with seven new Branches created GDP per Capita €32,387 during the year. A sub-branch was also formed in the • Woodford • Portarlington Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where a group of • Portumna/East Galway Infant Mortality (per 1000 births) 5.31 • Leenane medical students joined together to start taking the • North Clare Life Expectancy 77.73 yrs necessary steps to the formation of a Branch. Living with HIV&AIDS 2,800 • Tramore Literacy Rate 99% The new Branches are: • North Clare • Portarlington, Co. Laois • Leenane, Connemara Area • Portumna/East Galway • Access to safe water N/A Woodford, Co. Galway • Tramore, Co. Waterford • Ballaghadareen, Co. Roscommon
9 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Ireland Action
Our mission is to ensure that those who need help are at the centre of our work. To ensure the widest possible availability of our expertise and care throughout Ireland, we both provide services directly and we train others in the provision of those services. Year on year we have seen increases in the demand for our services.
A demonstrable need for locally available services in communities throughout Ireland is beyond question and this work carried out by Irish Red Cross volunteers is a valuable contribution not only to the social fabric of communities, but also to their economic development. General Assembly The worldwide leader for tsunami-related projects for the Red Cross/Red Crescent, Mr Johan Schaar, (pictured below right) was one of a number of key international and national speakers who attended the Irish Red Cross General Assembly which took place in the Galway Bay Hotel on 15 September.
Mr Schaar, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the International Federation Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on the Tsunami Operation, thanked the Irish Red Cross for its immense contribution to the operation.
The assembly also learned of important national policy developments. Mr Geróid O'Mhaolmhicil , the National Child Protection Officer, gave a full outline of new policies and procedures in this area. Dr Geoff King, Director of the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council addressed the assembly on the role of the pre-hospital care provider.
Members who attended the assembly also learned of new initiatives within the Irish Red Cross and voted to adopt the organisation's first-ever volunteer policy. Progress in all areas of activity were outlined by the Chairman, David Andrews, (pictured below left, with Secretary General, Carmel Dunne, centre and Johan Schaar) and the Chairpersons of each of the Working Groups of the Irish Red Cross.
E IRISH RED CROSS, WITH DEMONSTRABLE GROWTH IN NEEDS AND RESPONSES...”
Please see detailed captions on page 45 10 Red Cross People Voluntary service in Ireland is worth between €205 million and €485 million, according to the report published at the start of the year by the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
However the report also notes that there are “substantial costs involved in the recruitment, training and retention of volunteers” and estimates that this aspect of investment alone costs voluntary organisations about €4 million per year. In addition to the amount spent on training and other activities in 2005, the Irish Red Cross also continued investing in facilities and equipment.
To ensure that voluntary service meets a high standard, investment in recent years has taken place in a range of internal structures and services. This year the Irish Red Cross acquired six off-road vehicles, two minibuses and a mobile command & control vehicle.
Over the past four years, the Irish Red Cross has invested €3.7 million in upgrading its ambulance fleet and equipment, with 92 ambulances now available around the country. This investment is vital to ensure that we are equipped to deal with any kind of emergency and to carry out our ongoing work in local communities.
“THE RED CROSS IS A VOLUNTARY RELIEF ORGANI
11 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Caring in the Community
I SATION, NOT PROMPTED BY DESIRE FOR GAIN...”
CARING IN THE COMMUNITY*: There is a growing need for 800 720 720 quality care of older and more 40.4% vulnerable people in our community, INCREASE as evidenced by the growth in demand for Red ‘04-’05 Cross Carers Course, which this year saw an 600 increase of 30% in the number of courses taking place around the country. 549
513 There was also ongoing demand for the Handbook for Babysitters & Parents with over 236,668 copies distributed. The Irish Red Cross book was published in association with the Unilever brand Domestos. 400 The Therapeutic Hand Care Service, which provides the specialised techniques of hand massage and manicure to people in residential care and in their own homes, also grew with numbers of volunteers trained up by 45% on last year. Creams and nail varnishes were donated by Unilever and Johnson Brothers.
200 In 2005 a further five volunteers were trained as Skin Camouflage 2002 2003 2004 2005 Practitioners to provide the Skin Camouflage Service, set up by the Irish Red Cross in 2002, to people with skin disfiguring conditions such as vitiligo, *INCLUDES THERAPEUTIC HAND CARE, SKIN CAMOUFLAGE, CARERS, BABYSITTERS rosacea, birthmarks, scars, tattoos and many dermatological conditions.
Please see detailed captions on page 45 12 TOTAL TRAINING COURSES*:
12000 Training 12309
The last three years has seen a steady growth in the number of people being trained by the Irish Red Cross with figures up by 14.56% 14% in that period. This upward trend in training figures INCREASE ‘04-’05 continued in 2005. 11000 Occupational First Aid saw the highest increase in demand for training from 10745 the public, with a 48% increase in 10000 people being trained to provide First
Aid in the workplace. This demonstrates 9756 the impact that Health & Safety 9619 legislation is having with employers 9000 keen to ensure that their workforces are 2002 2003 2004 2005
properly protected. Consequently *FIGURES INCLUDE ALL COURSES, UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADINGS: FIRST AID TRAINING, CARING IN THE COMMUNITY, CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT, LIFE SUPPORT continued growth in this area is forecast, TRAINING, AMBULANCE OPERATION & INSTRUCTOR TRAINING. with additional numbers being trained each year and an ongoing need for refresher training also. TOTAL FIRST AID COURSES*:
10000 To meet this demand, Irish Red Cross members have had to significantly increase their own capacity in actual training. Therefore the Irish Red Cross continued its expansion in this area with the numbers trained significantly up on last year's figures. 7.5% 9650 And Irish Red Cross volunteers also undertook training to the new INCREASE ‘04-’05 top-level standard of Emergency Medical First Responder. This 9000 figure was up by just over a quarter on 2004. As the Emergency Medical First Responder Standard is adopted, this explains the 8977 commensurate fall-off in the numbers taking the old Advanced First Aid course, which it replaces.
8000 8116
7478
7000 2002 2003 2004 2005 *INCLUDES OCCUPATIONAL FIRST AID, BASIC FIRST AID, INTERMEDIATE FIRST AID, ADVANCED FIRST AID, EMERGENCY MEDICAL FIRST RESPONDER
13 Please see detailed captions on page 45 “TRAINING IN OCCUPATIONAL FIRST AID ROSE BY 48%...”
LIFE SUPPORT TRAINING*: Other training courses provided to
800 Irish Red Cross members and to the 821 public also saw continued growth, 48.2% such as the courses collectively featured INCREASE ‘04-’05 in the Life Support graph (see left).
600 In addition, the numbers taking our Stress Awareness courses (available to members only) more than doubled in 2005. This 554 programme is vital to ensure that our own members feel valued, protected and supported in the work that they do which can often be in difficult and challenging circumstances.
This strategy is further developed by the new “Peer Supporter” 400 scheme which is training Irish Red Cross members to provide specifically targeted care to fellow-members who have had to deal with traumatic situations. A total of 19 Irish Red Cross members underwent the inaugural “Peer Supporter” training.
Members also benefited from the series of courses offered for the first 249 259 time in relation to ambulance driving and management, which drew 200 attendances of 206 members. These courses are vital to ensure the 2002 2003 2004 2005 effective management of new replacement ambulances in which the *INCLUDES BASIC LIFE SUPPORT AND DEFIBRILLATOR Irish Red Cross has invested heavily over the course of the past four years.
Please see detailed captions on page 45 14 Youth People aged 25 or less count Child for half the world's population, with Protection a total of 2.2 billion people aged 18 Child Protection remains a priority for the Irish Red Cross, years or less, most of whom live in which is committed to ensuring the safest possible environment the developing world... for its younger members.
This year saw attention paid to implementation of the Code of Youth Conventions Good Practice for the Youth Work The Irish Red Cross is keen to involve young people in its activities Sector, issued by the Department at the same time as it seeks ways to provide young people overseas of Education and Science. with assistance. 2005 saw two major national conventions for young Development of a Code of Good people in the Red Cross. Practice specifically for the Irish Red Cross is also targeted and The National Youth Forum took place on 2 April 2005 in Portlaoise training got underway on the and attracted over 180 young people from across Ireland. A number Keeping Safe Training of speakers delivered addresses at the event and delegates could also Programme for Trainers. avail of workshops where they could learn more about the various aspects of Red Cross work that were of interest to them. The Irish Red Cross also sought to ensure that members were fully The National Youth Summer Camp 2005 took place over the course informed of what policies are being of the weekend 29 July to 1 August in the Petersburg Outdoor implemented nationally, with the Education Centre, Co. Galway, where over a hundred young people attendance of the National attended the event which was themed around the “Fundamental Coordinator for Child Protection, Principles of the Red Cross”. Gearóid O'Mhaolmhicil at both the National Youth Forum in April and Activities at the camp included an artistic interpretation of a chosen at the General Assembly in October. Fundamental Principle, and a range of outdoor pursuits. Limerick's Kenneth Newsham won the Person of the Camp Award.
Claremorris, Co Mayo, also hosted a very successful Regional Youth Fun Day which drew 142 young people to the town.
15 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Competitions Training our members ensures that Irish Red Cross First Aid volunteers provide the best service possible to the public.
To maintain this high standard, volunteers undergo rigorous examination and competition at international and national level.
The outstanding results of Irish Red Cross First Aid members continued again in 2005, with the team from Dublin Borough (City) taking second place at the First Aid Convention in Europe (FACE) Championships, at Svidnik, Slovakia.
The Irish Red Cross are top of the leaderboard when it comes to the record of winners at the FACE Championships, which moves venue from year to year. Preparation for Ireland to host the 2007 FACE Championships also got underway in 2005 with an agreement to host the Championships in the University of Limerick.
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17 14 Competition Winners 1 - The President of the Irish Red Cross and President of Ireland, Mary McAleese presenting the President's Perpetual Trophy to the 2005 winning team from Limerick. The team from Limerick comprises Fintan Breen, Team Leader; Liz Keyes, Yvonne Dallman, Michael O'Donoghue, Hilary Parkinson, and Ray McCloskey and they are accompanied by their Area Director of Units Dr Andrew Kelly. Photo: © Maxwell Photography
2 - [Novice - Individual - 2nd Prize] Novice individual competitions: John Costin, RDU Mid-West presenting the 2nd prize to Paul Robinson, Galway. Photo: Jean- Pierre Launay
3 - [Cadet Individual 2nd place] Cadet Individual Competitions: Tom Horwall, RDU Northwest presenting the 2nd prize to Marie Lawless, Louth at the Novice and Cadet Competitions in Ballynakill, County Laois in October 2005. Photo: Jean- Pierre Launay
4 - [Cadet Individual 3rd place] Cadet Individual: Tom Horwall, RDU Northwest presenting the 3rd prize to Alison O'Shea, Cork at the Novice and Cadet Competitions in Heywood Community College, in Ballynakill, County Laois. October 2005.
5 - [Novice - team - 1st Prize] Novice team competitions: Denis Kavanagh, Finance Officer of the Irish Red Cross presenting the 1st prize to Limerick novice team (Aine Mulcahy, Gerard O'Connor, Shirley Foley and Anne O'Mara). at Ballynakill, County Laois in October 2005. Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
8 9 6 - The Dublin Borough Team representing Ireland at the First Aid Convention in Europe (FACE) in Slovakia, July 2005. Pictured are: Back row left to right: John Shanley; Richard Flanagan; Peter Ryan; Front row left to right: Pamela O'Brien; Lynn Dennany; Caitriona Ryan. Photo: Ann Healy
7 - The Dublin Borough Team representing Ireland at the First Aid Convention in Europe (FACE) in Slovakia, July 2005. Pictured in the Navy uniform are: Back row left to right: Caitriona Ryan; Peter Ryan; Richard Flanagan, John Shanley; Front row left to right: Lynn Dennany; Mica (Slovakian host); Pamela O'Brien, Frances Kenny (Trainer). Photo: Ann Healy
8 - [Cadet Individual 1st place] Cadet Individual Competitions. October 2005: Tom Horwall, RDU Northwest presenting the 1st prize to Nuala Donovan, Limerick. Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
9 - [Novice - Individual - 1st Prize] Novice Individual Competitions, October 2005: 12 John Costin, RDU Mid-West presenting the 1st prize to Aideen Shinners from Limerick. Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
10 - [Cadet Team 1st place] Cadet team Competitions, October 2005: Sandra Stanley, Support Services Officer for the Irish Red Cross Youth presenting the 1st prize to Limerick Cadet team (Conor Haugh, Grainne Horan, Parisa Khoshnodi and Breffni O'Connor). Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
11 - Limerick cadets and novices, individuals and teams with supporters and coach won the 1st prices in each category of the Red Cross Novice and Cadet Competition in Heywood Community College, Co. Laois. 8 October 2005. Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
12 - [Novice - Team - 2nd Prize] Novice team Competitions: Denis Kavanagh, Finance Officer of the Irish Red Cross presenting the 2nd prize to the Cork novice team (Deirdre Hourihan, Susan O'Connor, Cormac O'Conail and Grainne Desmond). Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
13 - [Cadet Team 2nd place] Sandra Stanley, Support Services Officer for the Irish Red Cross Youth presenting the 2nd prize to the Galway Cadet team ( David Sullivan, Katie Kilkelly, Megan Cotter and Leanne Sullivan). Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
14 - [Cadet - Team - 3rd Place] Sandra Stanley, Support Services Officer for the Irish Red Cross Youth presenting the 3rd prize to the Cork Cadet team (Orla Murphy, Deghla de Barra, Tracey Hanley and Roisin Donovan) at the Novice and Cadet Competitions in County Laois in October 2005. Photo: Jean-Pierre Launay
18 “THE YEAR '05 SAW INCREASES IN HUMAN SUFFERING AND A COMMENSUR A
President’s Support
The Irish Red Cross was honoured to again welcome our President, the President of Ireland, Mrs Mary McAleese to our head office. President McAleese was hugely supportive of the Red Cross particularly during our tsunami appeal, pictured above, when she met with staff and volunteers who worked during Christmas to help get aid to the tsunami victims.
The Irish Red Cross tsunami appeal could not have raised the €31 million that it did and delivered the aid to the affected region so effectively, had it not been for the massive public, and corporate support that we received. Over 70 individuals volunteered to help deal with the hundreds of queries Overseasfrom people around the country. Most of these were individuals who gave up their free time to work for free for the Irish Red Cross. Their work was greatly helped by skilled telesales and data-entry staff who were supplied by United Airlines and Bank of Ireland in a significant gesture of corporate generosity.
19 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Search & Rescue
The ultimately tragic search during the Christmas holidays for the missing Middleton schoolboy, Robert Holohan (11), drew together large numbers of Red Cross members from all over Ireland who set up a First Aid treatment room for searchers. The Irish Red Cross Middleton Search & Rescue Dog Unit also helped to search for the missing boy, whose body was recovered in January.
This was a major Red Cross operation, involving units from Cork City, Fermoy, Mallow, Kanturk, Clonakilty, Clonmel, Carrick on Suir, Tipperary Town and Waterford City, and resulted in thousands of hours of voluntary service.
The Glen of Imaal Red Cross Mountain Rescue Team was also out in force over the holiday period. A dozen members of the team were deployed to Kerry to search for a lone Swedish walker, Olaf Jansen (23). His remains were subsequently discovered as a result of a small landslide nearly a year later.
Overall, operations by the Mountain Rescue Team increased by 20% on 2004. The Corrib-Mask inshore rescue team had its first callout in September this year - just nine months after its official launch on New Year's Day - when the Gardaí requested their assistance to search for a local man missing on Lough Mask. The man was successfully rescued by the team.
R ATE NEED FOR FASTER, MORE EFFECTIVE RESPONSES THAN EVER BEFORE...”
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21 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Tsunami On 26th December 2004, the biggest earthquake in 40 years hit the Indian Ocean floor west of Indonesia.
Tidal waves up to 30 feet high crashed into coastal areas of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Maldives, Malaysia, Bangladesh and the Seychelles, travelling up to 500 miles per hour.
This disaster proved exceptional in terms of destruction, damage and loss of life. Notwithstanding years of experience in responding to sudden disasters, the tsunami found the Irish Red Cross rising to a disaster unprecedented in living memory.
The Irish Red Cross swung into action on the day of the catastrophe, informing the public via the media of the instant response to the disaster by Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations locally and of the support being made available by the Irish Red Cross and others.
22 Tsunami Response A total of twelve countries in two continents were struck by the tsunami, which claimed the lives of some 225,000 people and forced over 1.5 million people to flee their homes.
Yet these figures only represent a small proportion of the many thousands of people who were directly affected through other ways, such as physical injury, bereavement, and loss of employment or education.
During 2005, the umbrella group for the 183 national Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, guided the work of Red Cross and Red Crescent delegates, from over a hundred different countries, working to alleviate this devastation. Together they assisted the ten countries most affected by the tsunami where emergency aid was needed: These are; Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Maldives, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Seychelles and Somalia.
In areas that were already affected by conflict, and which were therefore already receiving assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in accordance with its special mandate to assist victims of conflict, such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the international operation moved in as rapidly as circumstances would allow to support the local emergency relief operation.
This international humanitarian force supported the work - started on day one of the disaster - by the 30,000 volunteers in the local Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations in the countries affected.
All told some 18,000 tonnes of relief goods were delivered by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies during 2005. Apart from this immense quantity of aid, which included shelter items (tents, cooking utensils etc), medicines food and water, assistance was also given by skilled professionals in terms of construction, medical care, and psycho-social welfare services.
Prompt media attention coupled with intense public interest ensured that the Irish Red Cross raised enough funds to respond meaningfully and effectively to the disaster. A total of €31 million was given in public donations to the Irish Red Cross - by far the largest amount of money ever raised in a public appeal in the 66 year history of the Irish Red Cross.
Here in Ireland our own Red Cross members played a pivotal role in raising funds. Private individuals, companies and staff associations all mobilised to respond to the disaster as well. Irish Red Cross members in branches throughout Ireland responded by initiating local appeals themselves or supporting the many appeals run by ordinary individuals and groups. Irish Red Cross staff again cancelled holiday plans to ensure that head office was fully operational, just a year after they had done so for the Bam earthquake appeal.
While the media activity, fundraising and emergency delivery of goods and skilled personnel took place throughout the Christmas 2004 to New Year holiday period of 2005 and well into the following months, plans were already being drawn-up by the Irish Red Cross to channel the money received to the countries most affected.
23 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Maldives & The Indian Ocean Islands
“A total of 12 countries were affected by the tsunami and among the people that suffered most were the residents of two groups of islands ...”
“ITS PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT LIFE AND HEALTH...”
In per capita terms the Maldives, located just south of the Indian sub-continent, was one of the worst affected countries, with several thousand people forced to flee their homes. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, emergency stocks of medical supplies, shelter materials and water and sanitation services were supplied by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The Irish Red Cross took over the development of proper sewerage schemes for three of the islands which will help to protect vitally-needed fresh water supplies, benefiting 8,000 people.
The Indian Ocean islands, located just off the east coast of Africa, comprising Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles are prone to natural disaster including cyclones and floods. Irish Red Cross Delegate, Susanna Cunningham has been appointed to develop disaster preparedness strategies to help these islands protect themselves better from disasters.
Iran Pakistan COUNTRY PROFILE (MALDIVES) SaudiArabia PROJECT PROFILE Oman India Area 300 sq km (MALDIVES) Population 359,008 Operations: Allocated funding for GDP per Capita €3081 water and sewerage projects; Provision of Somalia Maldives Infant Mortality specialist delegate in (per 1000 births) 54.89 the field of Information Life Expectancy 64.41 yrs and Reporting
Living with HIV&AIDS Locations: Guraidhoo, Less than 100 Maafushi, Literacy Rate 97.2% Kudahuvadhoo
Area shown: Maldives & Indian Ocean Islands Access to safe water 83%
Please see detailed captions on page 45 24 “ THE RED CROSS ENDEAVOURS TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF INDIVIDUALS, BEING G
Well over 150,000 people are dead or presumed dead and half a million people have been displaced. The Irish Red Cross deployed three experienced delegates to work for the first few months on the short-term immediate emergency relief operation, and subsequently developed a series of long-term rehabilitative programmes.
25 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Indonesia “The city of Banda Aceh and the surrounding region, including many islands, was by far the worst-affected area touched by the tsunami. It is estimated that in terms of loss of life and dislocation, Indonesia suffered 70% of the damage of the total impact suffered by the 7 worst-affected countries ...”
G GUIDED SOLELY BY THEIR NEEDS, AND GIVE PRIORITY TO THE MOST URGENT CASES...”
COUNTRY PROFILE PROJECT PROFILE Area 1,919,440 sq km Operations: Emergency food & Population 245,452,739 aid distribution; Emergency healthcare; GDP per Capita €2842 Logistics (transport and Infant Mortality storage of aid); (per 1000 births) 34.39 Shelter; Secondary Education; Life Expectancy 69.87 yrs Information Programme Living with HIV&AIDS 110,000 Locations: Banda Aceh, Literacy Rate 87.9% Aceh Province Access to safe water 78%
Please see detailed captions on page 45 26 “Sri Lanka was the country second-worst affected by the tsunami, with around 35,000 dead or presumed dead ...”
27 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Many thousands more who survived were badly injured (21,000) and about half a million people lost their homes. Although a reasonably developed country, Sri Lanka had already endured a 20 year long civil war prior to the tsunami, leaving many communities already living in precarious circumstances.
Responding quickly to the need for aid, the Irish Red Cross sought to establish partnerships through the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society to enable the immediate delivery of aid. This created a framework for the Irish Red Cross to get started quickly on the rehabilitative work that needed to be done.
“IT ENSURES RESPECT FOR HUMAN BEINGS...”
COUNTRY PROFILE
Area 65,610 sq km PROJECT PROFILE Population 20,222,240 GDP per Capita €3395 Operations: School-building; Education projects; Infant Mortality Hospital refurbishment; (per 1000 births) 13.97 House reconstruction Life Expectancy 73.41 yrs Locations: Batticaloa, Kalutara, Living with HIV&AIDS 3,500 Ampara, Panadura Literacy Rate 92.3% Access to safe water 76%
Please see detailed captions on page 45 28 Niger & Burkina Faso Niger is the poorest country in the world, according to the UN Human Development Index and in 2005 was one of six countries in the Sahel region of Africa that suffered devastating food shortages due to a plague of locusts. A public appeal for funds was launched in 2005 to help pay for urgently needed goods and Chairman, David Andrews led a visit to the country to highlight the situation. Funds raised in the appeal were used to pay for urgently needed goods and to invest in future development to protect people in Niger from future food insecurity disasters.
“THE RED CROSS MAKES NO DISCRIMINATION AS TO NATIONALITY,
COUNTRY PROFILE PROJECT PROFILE (NIGER) (NIGER)
Area 1,267,000 sq km Operations: Emergency aid provision Population 12,525,094 (food distribution); Livelihoods; GDP per Capita €711 Health; Relief and disaster Infant Mortality preparedness (per 1000 births) 118.25 Life Expectancy 43.76 yrs Locations: Agadez Province Living with HIV&AIDS 70,000 Kindly Supported by Literacy Rate 17.6% Access to safe water 46% Irish Aid
29 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Y, RACE, RELIGIOUS BELIEF, CLASS OR POLITICAL OPINIONS...”
COUNTRY PROFILE PROJECT PROFILE (BURKINA FASO) (BURKINA FASO) Area 274,200 sq km Operations: Irish Aid funded food Population 13,902,972 assistance programmes reaching some 140,000 GDP per Capita €1300 persons Infant Mortality (per 1000 births) 91.35 Locations: Burkina Faso Life Expectancy 48.85 yrs Living with HIV&AIDS 300,000 Kindly Supported by Literacy Rate 26% Access to safe water 61% Irish Aid
Please see detailed captions on page 45 30 “Sudan has been beset by conflict for most of its history as an independent nation-state ...”
“THE RED CROSS MAY NOT TAKE SIDES IN HOSTILITIES OR ENGAGE IN CONT
The largest country in Africa, Sudan has been beset by conflict for most of its history as an independent nation-state. By the end of 2005, approximately two million people had fled their homes as a result of years of conflict in the south and more recently in the western region of Darfur. The Irish Red Cross urgently sought the help of the Irish public in providing aid to these people. An appeal for donations, launched by the Chairman David Andrews on his visit to Sudan in September 2004, was relaunched again during 2005.
31 Please see detailed captions on page 45 T ROVERSIES OF A POLITICAL, RACIAL, RELIGIOUS OR IDEOLOGICAL NATURE...”
COUNTRY PROFILE
Area 2,505,810 sq km PROJECT PROFILE Population 41,236,378 Operations: Provision of two GDP per Capita €1659 specialist delegates to develop health Infant Mortality programmes and (per 1000 births) 61.05 water & sanitation Life Expectancy 58.92 yrs services
Living with HIV&AIDS 400,000 Locations: Darfur Literacy Rate 61.1% Access to safe water 70%
Please see detailed captions on page 45 32 “THE RED CROSS MUST ALWAYS MAINTAIN IT’S AUTONOMY SO THAT THEY MAY
Liberia COUNTRY PROFILE Area 111,370 sq km This small west African country, with a population of just over 3 million people has suffered warfare almost continuously for the past 17 years. Population 3,042,004 PROJECT PROFILE Approximately two thirds of the people live below the poverty line and GDP per Capita €790 one in ten children have been recruited as child soldiers. The Operations: Transport and Infant Mortality Logistics; International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has worked to (per 1000 births) 155.76 Water & sanitation safeguard the population from the worst effects of war through dissemination of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the Life Expectancy 39.65 yrs Locations: Monrovia provision of aid. In 2005, the Irish Red Cross deployed Séamus Meagher Living with HIV&AIDS 100,000 to help aid deliveries through his work as a vehicle fleet manager. Literacy Rate 57.5% Séamus was the third Irish Red Cross delegate to work on the Liberian relief operation. Logistics specialist Gary Buchanan and engineer, Dónal Access to safe water 61% O'Suilleabháin, also worked on the Liberian operation. Uganda
COUNTRY PROFILE
Area 236,040 sq km The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has Population 28,195,754 been working in Uganda since the end of the civil war in 1979. PROJECT PROFILE GDP per Capita €1422 Operations: Assessments for The ICRC continues to expand its activities in northern and Infant Mortality aid distributions eastern parts of Uganda, with operations focusing on (per 1000 births) 66.15 protecting and assisting those affected by the country's long- Life Expectancy 52.67 yrs Locations: Gulu and Kitgum running internal conflict. Living with HIV&AIDS 530,000 The Irish Red Cross supports the work undertaken by the ICRC Literacy Rate 69.9% and has deployed one of our most experienced delegates Daire Access to safe water 60% O'Reilly, in Northern Uganda as an Economic Security Delegate.
33 Please see detailed captions on page 45 BE ABLE AT ALL TIMES TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH RED CROSS PRINCIPLES...”
“Malawi is one of the world’s poorest countries ...”
Located in southern Africa, Malawi is COUNTRY PROFILE PROJECT PROFILE also one of the poorest countries in the world. Well over half its people live in Operations: Development of Area 118,480 sq km poverty and a widespread section of the water & workforce has been decimated by Population 13,013,926 sanitation facilities; Training local people HIV/AIDS. € GDP per Capita 474 in the development and maintenance The Irish Red Cross has been working to Infant Mortality (per 1000 births) 94.37 of the new facilities improve living conditions in Malawi for the past year, through the development Life Expectancy 41.7 yrs Locations: Lilongwe Province of new water and sanitation facilities to Living with HIV&AIDS 900,000 rural communities and training in the Kindly Supported by Literacy Rate 62.7% development and maintenance of the new water and sanitation facilities. Access to safe water 73% Irish Aid
Please see detailed captions on page 45 34 Pakistan “The earthquake that struck a wide mountainous area, north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad on 8 October, killed 73,000 people, left 3.5 million people homeless, and injured well over a hundred thousand people...”
35 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Pakistan Measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, the earthquake struck as sub-zero winter temperatures were about to set in, compounding the urgent needs of those affected. The Irish Red Cross supported this operation by providing funds, goods and skilled personnel. Notwithstanding the large appeal at the start of the year to help people affected by the tsunami, Irish people again responded generously to the Irish Red Cross Appeal for Pakistan.
COUNTRY PROFILE
PROJECT PROFILE Area 803,940 sq km Population 165,803,560 Operations: Emergency aid provision (tents, hygiene parcels, GDP per Capita €1882 food and shelter materials); Infant Mortality Aid delivery (logistics, (per 1000 births) 70.45 air operations); Life Expectancy 63.39 yrs Media Service
Living with HIV&AIDS 74,000 Locations: Muzzafarabad, Literacy Rate 48.7% Islamabad, Geneva Access to safe water 91%
“ THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE RED CROSS SOCIETY IN ANY ONE COUNTRY, OPEN TO ALL ...”
Iran COUNTRY PROFILE Occurring exactly a year before the tsunami, at the end of 2003, Area 1,648,000 sq km the Bam earthquake was a Population 68,688,433 major disaster which destroyed PROJECT PROFILE much of this ancient city of GDP per Capita €6558 200,000 people. Infant Mortality Operations: Construction of two (per 1000 births) 40.3 new schools in Bam With at least 26,000 killed and Life Expectancy 70.26 yrs Locations: Bam 75,000 left homeless, the work to rebuild the entire city from Living with HIV&AIDS 31,000 scratch continues. In 2005, the Literacy Rate 79.4% Irish Red Cross funded the Access to safe water N/A rebuilding of 2 schools.
Please see detailed captions on page 45 36 USA
The impact of Hurricane Katrina COUNTRY PROFILE on New Orleans and other cities in Louisiana, when it struck on 2 Area 9,631,420 sq km September, caused immense Population 298,444,215 destruction to property, forcing PROJECT PROFILE GDP per Capita €33030 many hundreds of thousands of Operations: General emergency people to flee their homes. The Infant Mortality assistance, Post- Irish Red Cross received (per 1000 births) 6.43 Hurricane Katrina considerable donations from the Life Expectancy 77.85 yrs Irish people, which were passed Locations: Louisiana on to the American Red Cross to Living with HIV&AIDS 950,000 aid their relief work in the Literacy Rate 99% aftermath of the hurricane. Access to safe water N/A
“THE RED CROSS IS A WORLDWIDE INSTITUTION IN WHICH ALL SOCIETIES HAVE EQUAL Colombia
COUNTRY PROFILE
Area 1,138,910 sq km
Population 43,593,035 PROJECT PROFILE Over one and a half million than 30 years, promoting GDP per Capita €6242 people have been displaced by respect for international Operations: Protection and Infant Mortality assistance to the conflict between the humanitarian law and (per 1000 births) 20.35 civilians Colombian government and delivering assistance to Life Expectancy 71.99 yrs armed groups, and over half of displaced people and other Locations: Barranquilla the population live below the civilians. In 2005, the Irish Red Living with HIV&AIDS 190,000 poverty line. The International Cross deployed Owen Frazer to Literacy Rate 92.5% Committee of the Red Cross has the ICRC mission to work on worked in Colombia for more ICRC programmes. Access to safe water 93%
37 Please see detailed captions on page 45 Other Countries
These programmes have been carried out on behalf The Irish Red Cross has also of the Irish Red Cross by local Red Cross or Red funded emergency relief Crescent organisations, through our international partners, the International Federation of Red Cross and ongoing development and Red Crescent Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross. These programmes work in a number of other include the following: Mozambique, Hurricane Stanley, Hurricane Ivan, Russian Federation, countries struck by war or Afghanistan, India, Palestine, Rwanda, North natural disaster in 2005. Korea, Iraq, Kosovo.
L STATUS AND SHARE EQUAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES IN HELPING EACH OTHER...” Reuniting Families Tracing, Messaging and Compassionate Leave Services: Growth in demand for help from the Red Cross by people who have been separated by war or natural disaster continued in 2005. The Tracing Service in particular saw a sharp upturn in demand in 2005 to more than 100 new users, more than twice the previous year.
The Red Cross Message Service, used by people to contact relatives who are in prison, or in any situation where assurances of their wellbeing are needed, also saw a marked increase in new users in 2005, up by a third on the previous year's figure.
The Compassionate Leave Service arranges leave for Irish people serving with US Armed Services who need to get home due to family illness or bereavement. In 2005 two people used this service.
Please see detailed captions on page 45 38 Fundraising & Communications
“THE IRISH RED CROSS RAISED A TOTAL OF € 31 MILL
Communications In Action The immediate response of the Red Cross - both nationally here in Ireland and by local Red Cross organisations in countries affected by the tsunami - caught the attention of the media and the mood of the public.
39 Please see detailed captions on page 45 L ION FOR THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE TSUNAMI...”
This led to a positive reaction not only to the tsunami services throughout the year. Internationally, visits appeal, but crucially to heightened interest and by our Chairman, David Andrews to Sri Lanka and support for all our other work also. This came about to Niger brought further attention to the work being as a result of public awareness of the speed and done by the Irish Red Cross to help people in these effectiveness of the response of the Red Cross and countries. Interest in the work done by Irish Red Red Crescent movement in dealing with disasters and Cross delegates to help people in countries struck by the role played by the Irish Red Cross as part of that. war or natural disasters, such as earthquakes also helped to raise awareness. One independent estimate valued the publicity achieved in one week during the tsunami at more The Irish Red Cross would like to thank the many than €1.6 million. Locally, throughout the country thousands of donors who supported our work during media attention started the year in line with the big the year by organising events and donating funds. story of the tsunami with much interest in local These donors are too numerous to list but their fundraising ventures. This continued with support is vital for the work of the Irish Red Cross. increased interest in all Red Cross events and
40 Donors The Irish Red Cross would like to thank the following donors:
AA Ireland Chapterhouse Consulting Dunnes Stores ABB Ltd Citybus Employees Credit Union Ltd E P Mooney Abbey National Clanmaurice Credit Union Ltd. E-Services and Communications Credit Abbeyfeale Credit Union Limited Clarion Hotel Union Limited ABTRAN E-Care & Fulfillment Clarke Communications Eagle Star Insurance Company Abbott Laboratories Ireland Ltd. Classic Tiles Ltd Earlsvard Limited Abbott Products Clondalkin Credit Union Eason and Son Ltd Acorn Life Clondalkin Garda Station Eats of Eden Ltd Accuris Ltd Clonmel Credit Union Ltd EBS Building Society Advance Systems Ireland Ltd Co Wicklow Vocational Education ECDC LIMITED AGI Media Dublin Ltd Committee ECW Limited AIB Co-operation Ireland Eircom Aiken Promotions Coca-Cola Bottlers Ireland ElectricAid Airtricity Cognis Ireland Limited Emerald Clothing Ltd Alcan Packaging Dublin Ltd College Hill T/A Hickeys EMI Music Ireland Allianz Corporate Irl Plc Cologne Reinsurance Company Ltd Empathy Marketing Limited An Post Comit Gruppe Ireland Employment Health Advisors Ltd Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Commissionor of Goldsmiths Enable Ireland Anthony Reddy Associates Computershare Investor Services E-Nasc Eireann Teoranta AOL Technologies Ireland Ltd Conduit Enterprises Limited Enet Apple Computers Control Aer Limited Enterprise Ireland Ardagh Corporate Services Ltd Coolmore/ Castlehyde & Assoc. Stud. eProperty Gold Ltd Ardee Credit Union Farms Equifax Inc Arklow Community Tsunami Appeal Cork Builders Providers Ltd Ericsson Ltd Arnotts Cornmarket Group Financial Services Ltd ESB Arthur Cox Crafts Council of Ireland ESB International Ascon Ltd Creative Labs Ireland EU Profiles Ltd ASTI Cuisine de France Euro Car Parks Limited Audio Ireland Cumnor Construction Ltd Eurocast Ireland Ltd Atlantic Homecare D M K Construction Ltd. EuroConex Bank of Scotland Dalkey Credit Union Ltd Euro Internal Systems Ltd Ballincollig Credit Union Limited Daly Bros Limited Excel Recruitment Ballybay Credit Union Ltd Data Exchange Europe Ltd Executive Edge Ltd Ballyphehane Credit Union Datapac Ltd Farmbrook Services Ltd Bank of Ireland David Lloyd Riverview Ltd FAS Bank of Ireland Asset Mgt Decstaunton Design Ltd FBD Insurance Plc Banta Global Turnkey Ltd Department of Finance Fermoy Credit Union Limited Baxter Healthcare Department of Justice Ferring Pharmaceuticals Irl Ltd Bayer Diagnostics (Swords Staff) Dept. of Enterprise & Employment Fidelity Investments BCM Hanby Wallace Department of Health & Children Finaref Insurance Ltd BDO Simpson Xavier Depuy Ireland First Active plc Beauchamps Solicitors Dermott G O'Donovan&Partners First Choice Airways Bestseller Wholesale (Ireland) Ltd Solicitors First Coach International Ltd Bewley's Ltd Design Interiors Ltd First Things First Ltd Billy Sinnot & Sons Ltd Design Partners Co. Fitzgibbon Printing Ltd Bio-Sciences Ltd Desmond Credit Union Fleishman-Hillard Saunders Limited Black Raven Credit Union Devlin Service Station Focus Security Services Dublin Ltd Blackrock Credit Union DHL Express Ireland Forbo Ireland Ltd Blackwater Homes Diageo Ireland Fournier Laboratories Bloxham Stockbrokers Dick Kelly and Sons Ltd Frankfield Properities Ltd BOC Gases Ireland Digitalk Communications Ltd Floor2Floor Marketing Ltd Bord Gais Employees' Credit Union Dixons Foras na Gaeilge Bourns Electronics (Ireland) DML Construction Ltd Fredna Limited Brandwell Dome Telecom Ltd Freemasons of Ireland Bray & District Chamber of Commerce Donabate Golf Club Limited Frizelle, O'Leary & Co Bristol-Myers Squibb Tech Ops Ireland Donal O'Buachalla & Company Limited Fujitsu Services Brooks Group Limited Donal O'Meara Enterpises Furniture Services Ltd Browne Global Solution Donnybrook Travel Fyffes Group Ireland Limited Cadbury Ireland Limited Donore Credit Union Ltd G Dalton & Co Ltd Canon Business Equipment Douglas Credit Union Limited G H L Recruitment Cantrell & Cochrane Group Douglas Newman Good Gallagher Ireland Campbell Catering Draiocht Limited Galway City Council Cardiac Services Dublin Bus Galway Clinic Carna Transport Limited Dublin Business Innovation Centre Garda Representative Association Cascade Designs Ltd Limited Garavan's Limited Capel Developments Ltd Dublin Business School GE Erc Strategic Reinsurance Ltd Cashel Credit Union Dublin County Council GE Interlogix Irl Ltd Castleblaney Credit Union Limited Dublin Dental School & Hospital General Mortgage Corporation Ireland Ltd Castle King Services Limited Dublin Film Distribution Company Genzyme Ireland Ltd Castle Snackfood Distribution Ltd Duggan Steel Group Gerry Kennedy Ltd Cawley's Furniture Duleek Credit Union Limited GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Central Fisheries Board Dundalk Lighting Ltd Global Tele Sales Ltd Central Statistics Office Dungarvan Shellfish Ltd GMG Mechanical Services Ltd
41 GN ReSound Ireland Ltd Maeve Binchy Sharp Text Ltd Golden Pages Ltd Masonry Fixing Services Ltd SIAC Butlers Steel Golfing Union of Ireland Masterfire Protection Ltd Sigmar Recruitment Ltd Gorey Credit Union Ltd Masterville Ltd Similarity Systems Gorta Matheson Ormsby Prentice SIMI Gregan McGuinness (Life and Pensions) MEC Ltd Singularity Limited Ltd Medical Supply Co Ltd Silicon & Software Systems Guidant Ireland Mercer Human Resource Consulting SIPF Ltd Guilfoyle Truck Sales Ltd Merck Sharp & Dohme Sonopress Ireland Halifax MFP Sales Ltd South Wharf PLC Hanlette Court Hotel Michael Guiney Ltd Smurfit News Press Ltd Harcourt Developments Micheal O' Shea & Sons Ltd Smurfit Corrugated Cases HeartSpace Ltd Microchem Laboratories Specialist Independent Building Services Heatons Ltd Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd Society of Actuaries Ireland Heat Merchants Morragh French Productions South County Dublin Co Council Hertz Europe Service Centre Ltd Monks Bar & Restaurant St Raphael's Garda Credit Union Ltd Hogs & Heifers Ltd MP Black & C Black St Vincent De Paul Hunter/Red Cell Ltd National Irish Bank Standard Life IIB Bank Limited Newbridge Credit Union Statoil Ireland Limited Ilac Centre Newgate Motor Co Ltd Straffan Court Hotels Independent Newspapers Ireland Limited New Ireland Assurance Co Strategic Arts Management Limited Inflight Dublin New Technology Insurance Sunlight Windows Ingersoll Rand International Niall Hyde & Associates Supervalu Intel Ireland Limited Noel Regan & Sons Ltd Sweeney Sheet Metal International Fishing Ltd Noel Sherlock Association Sweetman Communications Ltd International Fund Managers Ltd Nolan Ryan Partnership T.C. Matthews Carpets Ltd International Investment & Underwriting Northern Trust Tara Mines Ltd Investors Trust Ireland Novartis Tattersalls Ireland Ltd Ireland Canada Business Association Noyeks Limited Tesco Irish Biscuits Limited NTL Ireland Texaco (Ireland) Ltd Irish Country Houses & Restaurants NVD Ltd The Blood Transfusion Services Board Association O'Neills International Sports Company The Buckley Foundation Ltd Irish Chamber Orchestra O'Flaherty Holdings The Delph Centre Irish Dairy Board O'Flynn Construction The Eleanora Irish Hotels Federation O'Flynn Exham & Partners The National Concert Hall Irish League of Credit Unions O'Malley Construction Co. Ltd. The Point Exhibition Co Ltd Irish Life & Permanent TSB O' Neill’s Hotel The Rotary Club of Dun Laoghaire Irish Nationwide O'Riordan The Sweater Shop Ltd Irish National Bookmakers Association O' Riada & Co Solicitors Thurles Credit Union Limited Irish Rugby Football Union O2 Ireland Tilestyle Ltd Irish Shell Limited One Direct TNS mrbi Irish Times Ormond Quay & Scots Presbyterian Tourism Ireland Limited Irish Travel Agents Association Orwell House Nursing Home Toulston Ltd Leasing & Financial Services ISS Facility Service Endowments Townlink Construction IVAX Pharmaceuticals Ireland Orwell House Nursing Home TRK Accounting Services Ltd Jacobs Biscuits Ltd P A Consulitng Services Trulife Limited Janssen Pharmaceutical Paddy Burke Builders Ulster Bank Jefferson Smurfit Group Ltd Patrick McNamara & Associates Unicredito Italiano Bank plc Jervis Shopping Centre Peats Wholesale Ltd University College of Cork J G Moloney Solicitors Pepsi Co University College of Limerick J F K Disposables Ltd Pfizer URS Ireland Ltd Johnson & Johnson Ltd Philip Lee Solicitors Utility O & M Services JP McManus Charitable Foundation Ltd Permanent TSB Varming Mulcahy Reilly Associates J P Morgan Bank Ireland plc Polyglass Limited Veritas Software International Ltd Kellogg's Ltd Powerscourt Arms Hotel Veritest Kells Town Council Premiere Recruitment Ltd VHI Kenworth Wholesale Ltd Prison Officers Association Vinters Federation of Ireland Kerry Ingredients PWS Celbridge Ltd Vision Consulting Ltd Killarney Plastics Limited Quality Hotels & Comfort Inns Vivendi Universal Games Ireland Limited Kileens Tavern Quest Computing Ltd Walls to Workstations Ltd Kilsaran Concrete Ltd Quinn Direct Insurance Walsh Printers Ltd Kirby Group Quintiles Ireland Ltd Walsh's Commercial Centre Ltd Lake Communications Ltd R N Murphy & Associates Walsh's Wholesale Limited Larkhill and District Credit Union Ltd Radisson Hotels Waters, Wexford Business Park Leopardstown Retail Park Ltd Raychem International Waterfall Farms Ltd Lewis C Doyle & Co Solicitors Ray Staunton Electrical Ltd Waverly Investments LTD Libra Sales Ltd Reardens of Washington Street Ltd WBT Systems Ltd Limerick Co Co Rehab Group Well Woman Head Office Littelfuse Ireland Limited Restaurant Association of Ireland Wellman Int Ltd Lithographic Web Press Ltd Retail Integration Ltd West Wood Trailers LTD LM Ericsson Limited Revenue EAS West Wood Club Look Sales Ltd Roches Stores Weyerhaeuser Europe ltd Louis A McAuley Ltd Royal College of Surgeons White Hotel Group Lucan Golf Club Right Price Tiles Wholefoods Wholesale Ltd Lufthansa Technik (Airmotive Ireland) RPS Group Ltd William Cox Ireland Ltd M.J. Flood Ireland Ltd Rocket Restaurants Woodenbridge Golf Club Macroom Town Council Royal & Sun Alliance WP O'Reilly & Associates Maplewood Developments Ltd Sadlers & Sadlers Ltd Wyeth Medica Ireland Marks & Spencer Ireland Ltd SAP Service & Support Centre Ireland Ltd Wyeth Nutritionals Ltd Marsh Ireland Ltd Risk & Insurance Schering AG Xilinx Services SDL Global Solutions Ltd Masonite Ireland Shannon Homes Group
... and the other organisations and individuals who organised events and gave so generously during the year.
42 Summary Accounts
REVENUE ACCOUNTS Year ended 31 December 2005
2005 2005 2004 2004 € € € €
Unrestricted Funds Income 3,117,903) 2,233,191) Expenditure (2,531,925) (2,251,948)
Surplus/(deficit) on unrestricted funds 585,978) (18,757)
Restricted Funds Income 142,917) 3,178,146) Expenditure (923,690) (2,107,439)
(Deficit)/surplus on restricted funds (780,773) 1,070,707)
Overseas appeal funds Income 35,743,117) 3,552,888) Expenditure (8,490,138) (1,946,116)
Surplus on overseas appeal funds 27,252,979) 1,606,772)
Excess of income over expenditure 27,058,184) 2,658,722)
AUDITORS' REPORT: To the members of Irish Red Cross Society
The Income and Expenditure Account above has been properly extracted from the Head Office Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2005 on which we reported, without qualification, on 24th June 2006.
BDO SIMPSON XAVIER REGISTERED AUDITORS Dublin.
43 DETAILED REVENUE ACCOUNT Year ended 31 December 2005 (As restated)
2005 2005 2004 2004 € € € €
Unrestricted funds income Government grant aided income 758,000) 736,000) Community employment scheme 56,581) Branch contributions 110,745) 89,777) General receipts 1,996,282) 1,314,135) Surplus on supplies 49,011) 32,116) Projects in Ireland 203,865) 4,582) 3,117,903) 2,233,191)
Expenditure Government grant aided expenditure: - Payroll and staff costs 1,089,301) 958,138) - Kilbehenney home maintenance 29,374) 24,978) Community employment scheme 50,418) Services in Ireland 476,999) 349,372) Projects in Ireland 119,248) 9,110) Public relations 45,019) 49,728) Fundraising 22,015) 397,700) Administration 139,807) 159,193) Premises 55,204) 56,196) Professional fees 62,608) 46,331) Affiliation fees 79,235) 67,202) General 413,115) 83,582) 2,531,925) 2,251,948)
Surplus/(deficit) on unrestricted funds 585,978) (18,757)
Restricted funds Income on restricted funds 142,917) 3,178,146) Expenditure on restricted funds (923,690) (2,107,439)
(Deficit)/surplus on restricted funds (780,773) 1,070,707)
Overseas appeal funds Income on specific appeals 35,743,117) 3,552,888) Expenditure on specific appeal (8,490,138) (1,946,116)
Surplus on overseas appeal funds 27,252,979) 1,606,772)
Excess of income over expenditure 27,058,184) 2,658,722)
44 Photograph Captions
P5 - Chairman’s Foreword - David Andrews. Photo: © Lensmen. P29 - Niger & Burkina Faso - Top - Maria Bizo with her youngest son, two- year-old Maman Sani in her home. "We do not have any cattle and we P6 - Secretary General’s Foreword - Carmel Dunne. Photo: © Lensmen. have no income," she says. "So when the harvest fails, there is no food." Niger, August 2005. Photo: © Olav Saltbones, Norwegian Red Cross. P9 - Ireland - First Aid Training. Photo: © Irish Red Cross. Niger - Bottom left - Niger Food Crisis. Young Hausa children at a Red Cross camp in Tahoua, December 2005. Photo: © Bruce Liron, P10 - Ireland Action - Chairman David Andrews and Secretary General International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Bottom Carmel Dunne welcome guest speaker Johann Schaar Special right - Niger food crisis. A child is being weighed for malnourition in a Representative of the Secretary General on the tsunami operation. mobile clinic, which visits a Red Cross camp in Tahoua, Niger in Photo: © Irish Red Cross. December 2005. Photo: © Bruce Liron, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. P11 - Red Cross People - Trained skin Camouflage practitioners Denise Hudson and Marie McSweeney during the process of applying skin P31 - Sudan - Top - Maize distribution in Darfur, Sudan, February 2005. camouflage. Photo: © Lydia O'Halloran. Food distribution point set up by the ICRC in the remote village of Sawani, 150 kilometers south west of El Fashir, capital of North Darfur P12 - Caring in the community - Therapeutic Handcare services given state. Photo: © Olav Saltbones, Norwegian Red Cross. Bottom - by Irish Red Cross volunteers. Photo: © Lensmen. Displaced child waiting for ICRC relief distribution. Garsila, Western Darfur, Sudan. Photo: © ICRC, Thierry Gassmann. P14 - Training - Deirdre Brosnan, Eileen Murphy and Sarah Vaughan, Cork for the Presidents Perpetual Trophy competition. Photo: © Jean- P33 - Liberia - Left - Lofa county, Zorzor, Liberia. ICRC distribution of Pierre Launay, Irish Red Cross. seeds and food. March 2006. Photo: © ICRC, Boris Heger. Right - Refugee camp in Lainé, Guinea. Children who had to flee their homes P15 - Youth - Members of Red Cross and Red Crescent Youth together during attack about to be reunited with their families. Photo: © ICRC, formed the logo of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Jean-Yves Clemenzo. Crescent Societies at the Media & Communications Conference which took place in Munich in May 2005. Photo: © Fintan Breen, Irish Red Cross. P33 - Uganda - A family in the Kitgum district of Uganda. Photo: © ICRC.
P16 - Competitions - The Limerick team with the President's Perpetual P34 - Malawi - Children around a waterpump funded and installed by Trophy, which they won in 2005. The team will represent Ireland at the the Irish Red Cross. Photo: © Emma MacBride, Irish Red Cross. FACE competitions in Assis, Italy in June 2006. The team from Limerick comprises Fintan Breen, Team Leader; Liz Keyes, Yvonne Dallman, P35 - Pakistan - Left hand page - The tears in the eyes of peoples Michael O'Donoghue, Hilary Parkinson, and Ray McCloskey. They are weathered faces convey their true feelings and inspire Red Cross and accompanied by their Area Director of Units Dr Andrew Kelly (not in Red Crescent workers to continue and speed up the efforts to victims of picture). Photo: © Maxwell Photography. the Pakistan earthquake on 8 October 2005. Photo: © Arzu Ozsoy, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. P19 - President’s Support - 1 January 2005. During her New Year's Day Right hand page - Left - The children affected by the earthquake, which visit to the Irish Red Cross Head Office to see the tsunami appeal hit Pakistan on 8 October 2005, are the most vulnerable among all the operations in full swing, the President of Ireland and the Irish Red other survivors. Photo: © Arzu Ozsoy, International Federation of Red Cross, Mary McAleese, sees IRC staff members at work. Photo: © Mac Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Middle - Muzaffarabad, Neelum Innes Photography. Stadium. Evacuation of wounded persons to Islamabad. Photo: © ICRC, J. Björgvinsson. Right - More than three million people became P20 - Search & Rescue - Tim Clesham with the new Red Cross rescue homeless following the devastating Pakistan earthquake of October 8, boat during the launch of the First Red Cross Lifeboat in June 2004. The 2005. Photo: © Arzu Ozsoy, International Federation of Red Cross and lifeboat will service Loughs Corrib and Mask. Photo: © Joe Red Crescent Societies. O'Shaughnessy. P36 - Iran - Picture taken during the reconstruction of Montazeri P21 - Overseas - This boat was carried inland by the December 2004 School, Bam, Iran. March 2006. This school project is funded by the tsunami and finally came to a halt on the roof of a house. In the Irish Red Cross. Photo: © Evgeni Parfenov, International Federation of foreground a tent provides temporary shelter to people, who lost their Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. home in the tsunami. Banda Aceh, Indonesia in October/November 2005. Photo: © Colm Byrne, Irish Red Cross. P37 - USA - A truck is crushed under a house from the 20ft storm surge of Hurricane Katrina. Photo: © Chad Purser. P23 - Tsunami Response - Palm trees after a hurricane. Photo: © Roberto Adrian P37 - Colombia - Left - Catatumbo, Santander, Colombia. Under the P24 - Maldives & Indian Ocean Islands - Top - As well as undertaking auspices of the ICRC, members of organised armed groups prepare to large-scale reconstruction programmes the International Federation and release hostages. Photo: © ICRC, Boris Heger. Right - La Marina, its members are investing considerable energy in the rehabilitation of Choco, Colombia. Displaced girl doing the washing up. Photo: © ICRC, damaged water and sanitation infrastructure. Photo: © Stacey Winston, William Torres. International Federation. Bottom - Many islands in the Maldives were exceptionally vulnerable to the force of the tsunami. Certain islands were P38 - Other Countries - Preparations for distribution of basic household not touched at all, others partially damaged, and some completely items, with support from Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers. Garsila, destroyed. Photo: © Selina Chan, International Federation of Red Cross Western Darfur, Sudan. Photo: © ICRC, Thierry Gassmann. and Red Crescent Societies. P38 - Reuniting Families - A man fills out a tracing request form for his son P25 - Indonesia - Top - ICRC field hospital, donated by the Norwegian in the Armenian Red Cross headquarters in Yerevan, March 2005. Photo: © government, treating a nine-year-old tsunami victim. Banda Aceh, ICRC, Boris Heger. Indonesia, January 2005. Photo: © ICRC, Thierry Gassmann. Bottom right - A couple collect their belongings from the remains of their home in the P39 - Fundraising & Communications - Top -Tsunami funds collected in the severely damaged Mount Lavinia district, south of Colombo, Sri Lanka. New Year’s Eve collection, across 8,500 pubs, restaurants and hotels Photo: © Reuters/Kieran Doherty/Courtesy www.alertnet.org. organised by retired Garda Jim McQuaide in conjunction with the members and organisations of the Licensed Vintners Association; the Vintner’s P27 - Sri Lanka - Left hand page - Eachchilampatai, Muhathuvaaram, Sri Federation of Ireland and the Irish Hotels Federation, with the support of Lanka. People displaced by the Tsunami in a camp. Photo: © ICRC, members of An Garda Siochana who ensured the money was securely Jessica Barry. Right hand page - Top -January 2005, Medawachchi, stored in the 903 Garda Stations around the country over the course of the Trincomalee region, Sri Lanka. Relief distribution for people displaced bank holiday weekend. Photo: © Irish Red Cross. Bottom - Lord Mayor, by conflict and then became tsunami victims. Photo: © ICRC, Juan Van Michael Connaghan, pictured with Bill Powderly of Civil Defence who Heerden. Bottom - Peraliya, Sri Lanka. Mother and child passing organised a collection in Dublin’s city centre for the tsunami with the Vice- through a village destroyed by the tsunami, which hit parts of south- Chairman of the Irish Red Cross, Tony Lawlor. Photo: © Irish Red Cross. east Asia on 26 December 2004. Photo: © ICRC, Jessica Barry.
45 HUMANITY: THE RED CROSS ENDEAVOURS - IN ITS INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CAPACITY - TO PREVENT AND ALLEVIATE HUMAN SUFFERING WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND. ITS PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT LIFE AND HEALTH AND TO ENSURE RESPECT FOR THE HUMAN BEING. IMPARTIALITY: THE RED CROSS MAKES NO DISCRIMINATION AS TO NATIONALITY, RACE, RELIGIOUS BELIEF, CLASS OR POLITICAL OPINIONS. IT ENDEAVOURS TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF INDIVIDUALS, BEING GUIDED SOLELY BY THEIR NEEDS, AND TO GIVE PRIORITY TO THE MOST URGENT CASES. NEUTRALITY: THE RED CROSS MAY NOT TAKE SIDES IN HOSTILITIES OR ENGAGE IN CONTROVERSIES OF A POLITICAL, RACIAL, RELIGIOUS OR IDEOLOGICAL NATURE. INDEPENDENCE: THE RED CROSS MUST ALWAYS MAINTAIN THEIR AUTONOMY SO THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE AT ALL TIMES TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RED CROSS PRINCIPLES. VOLUNTARY SERVICE: THE RED CROSS IS A VOLUNTARY RELIEF ORGANISATION, AND IS NOT PROMPTED IN ANY MANNER BY DESIRE FOR GAIN. UNITY: THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE RED CROSS SOCIETY IN ANY ONE COUNTRY. IT MUST BE OPEN TO ALL. IT MUST CARRY OUT ITS HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT ITS TERRITORY. UNIVERSALITY: THE RED CROSS IS A WORLDWIDE INSTITUTION IN WHICH ALL SOCIETIES HAVE EQUAL STATUS AND IN WHICH ALL SHARE EQUAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES TO HELP EACH OTHER. (RED CROSS PRINCIPLES)