The Honduran Red Cross is a non-profit institution of social and voluntary interest that provides help to the population in risk or in disaster. It is part of the international organization Red Cross and Half Moon Red, whose mission is to relieve the human pain by means of immediate attentions of agreement to each situation in particular.
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Foundation and history
When it was developed in 1924 during the Second civil war, a group of people organized to tend to the injured in fights after the place of Tegucigalpa by the Constitutional Rebellious Strengths, following the example in 1919 of Henry Dunant during the First world-wide war, is like this when the first group of lifeguards, explained in his rows with Carlos Rivas, Delia Becerra, Emma Bonilla, Ernesto López Alleys, Hernán López Alleys, Isolina Guilbert, Luz Becerra, Marine Stair, Marieta Guilbert, Otilia Idiáquez, Roberto Rivas, Soledad Lozano, among others were those who carried the symbol of the red cross in Honduras.
In 1937, a group of women organized and was a sponsor of the first group of Honduran lifeguards. They were not defined as the Honduran Red Cross. Focused on their requests to the government to obtain a legal status. They developed activities to benefit the Honduran society. On September 4th of the same year, the president, Doctor and general Tiburcio Carias Andean, in a meeting in the Presidential House of Honduras, awarded the constitutive legal recognition to the he well-deserving institution, organizing a Board of Directors which excelled promoters and members of the body, such as: Adolfina Mejía, lady Berta García of Saenz Rico, lady Elia Pineda of Fortín, lady Ernestina of Landa, Lady Enriqueta Girón of Lázarus, doctor Guillermo Durón, doctor Hernán López Alleys, lawyer Héctor Pineda Ugarte, doctor Humberto Díaz Banegas, lady Isabel Siqueiros of Pinel, lady Isolina Lozano of Guilbert, lady Josefina Mejía, lawyer Jorge Fidel Durón, doctor Juan To. Mejía, doctor Manuel Cáceres Vijil, doctor Ramón Villeda Moral, lawyer Rubén Álvarez Channels, and the Rotarary Club of Tegucigalpa. By means of Decree No. 475 issued on date 6 October 1937, the institution was known officially as the Honduran Red Cross, with functions to make humanitarian actions in the national territory. Lázarus Henrietta in 1941, serving as President of the Honduran Red Cross, requested the National Congress of Honduras to issue a law which can be established as an income in favour of the Red Cross. It was issued as the "law of the income of the seal of the Red Cross", so that the organization would receive finances in order to become feasible to sustain themselves independently and continue with social services to the people. The economic funds received by the organization would be feasible to help the organization to sustain independently and continue with the social services to the village.
In 1942 they worked the first headquarters of regional committees or auxiliaries in San Pedro Sula, Port Cortés, Cloth (Honduras) and The Ceiba which were authorized to retain 40% of the economic helps collected by partners benefactors and donors and remitting to the Central Committee 60% of the same. In the same year would found the Consultorio Childish, with ends of support and solidarity to the boys.
In 1950 when the Honduran Red Cross obtained his first unit ambulance, a vehicle instrumented model Ford.
It occurred in 1954 when the then president of Honduras doctor Juan Manuel Gálvez dona a terrain for the construction of the official headquarters de la Cruz Red of Honduras.
The Honduran Red Cross, has had an effective work in the bellicose events Hondurans like being: the Third civil war of 1931, the events of 1954, the War of the Football of 1969, together with ACNUR and Doctors without Borders have backed the mobilisation of civilians in the border zones with The Saviour and Nicaragua in the decade of the years ochentas, as in the natural disasters ocasionados by the Hurricane Fifi-Orlene of 1971 and the Hurricane Mitch that has devastated the zone north and head office of the country centroamericano in 1998.
Presidents
Presidents of the Central Committee de la Cruz red Honduran:
Paramedics
The body of lifeguards finds integrated in by volunteers, that receive a course of first helps, basic emergency, rescue in buildings, in mountains, in rivers, etc.
Regional headquarters
The central headquarters de la Cruz Red Honduran, finds in the Neighborhood Conception, 7 street 1st and 2nd avenue, of Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. Republic of Honduras.
The expansion of the regional headquarters de la Cruz Red did not do expect for which were founded in the main cities of the country, as be: Comayagua, Danlí, The Ceiba, Choluteca, Santa Bárbara,Juticalpa, San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa of Copán, Yuscarán, etc.
Red Cross Youth Honduras
Red Cross Youth Honduras is an auxiliary organism of Honduran Red Cross founded on 17 June 1964. It is composed of volunteers age 6 and up organized as follows. 6 to 12 years Brigadista; 12 to 30 years Juvenile; 30 and up Advisers. The headquarters of the CRJH are in Francisco Morazán, Comayagua, Choluteca, Valley, Olancho, The Paradise, Courts, Santa Bárbara, Atlántida, Colon, Intibucá, Yoro and Copán.