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Regardless of the latitude or longitude one is: every May 8, the world is celebrated World Day of the Red Cross, the largest and oldest humanitarian network on the planet. Now well: Why was this date chosen on the calendar?
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To find the explanation, we have to go back 156 years, when Henri Dunant founded the Red Cross on February 17, 1863. In his honor, some time later, it was decided that the day of birth of this Swiss philanthropist (May 8, 1828Geneva) is also considered as the World Red Cross Day.
Who was Henri Dunant
Business man with marked solidarity vocationwe must go back to the first years of life of Dunant to understand the reasons that motivated him later to help others. Already a child Jean-Jacques Dunant (his father) and Antoinette Dunant-Colladon (his mother) instilled him the values of camaraderie and solidarity.
Henri Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross.
At the age of 18, Henri founded theThursday badociation", an organization in which a group of young people gathered to study the Bible, help the poor and also visit prisoners in prison.
However, his life changed in 1853. That year, the company he was working for sent him on a trip to Algeria, Tunisia and Sicilyin which, in addition to writing his first book (titled "History of the regency in Tunisia"), he founded a company to grow and market maize in Algeria.
The Red Cross, present in the current crisis in Venezuela. (Photo: AFP)
Having problems with the granting of land, Henry decided to ask the French emperor Napoleon III intercede, so he moved to Solferino (Italy), a small town where was all the army of the emperor.
Destiny wanted Dunant he arrived in this Italian city on June 24, 1859, the same day that the battle of Solferino took place, bloody battle between the Austrian army and the French army that ended with thousands of dead on both sides.
The Red Cross helped rescue refugees in Catania, Italy, in June 2018. (Photo: Reuter)
In the midst of desolation, Dunant observed about 40,000 wounded soldiers in the middle of the battlefield, so decided to help them. Under the motto "We are all brothers"Switzerland organized field hospitals and asked the local population for help in helping them.
On his return to Switzerland, he wrote another book detailing what had happened in Solferino and also traveled across Europe. seeking to create a neutral organization to care for wounded soldiers in different battles. After all, the Red Cross was born.
A Red Cross vehicle is part of a humanitarian convoy in Damascus, Syria, in March 2018. (Photo: EFE)
All his work has not gone unnoticed in the world, to the point that the Swiss was chosen as the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1901 (with Frédéric Pbady, French politician and economist). "No man deserves this honor anymore, because it was you, forty years ago, who launched the international relief organization for the wounded on the battlefield. Without you, the Red Cross, the supreme humanitarian achievement of the nineteenth century would probably never have been achieved"commented the committee organizing the award at that time.
On October 30, 1910, Dunant He died at 82 years old. His remains rest in Switzerland. In his memory, the Red Cross delivers "The Henry Dunant medal", The highest decoration offered by this humanitarian organization.
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