Sunday, December 20, 2009

New Red Cross Red Crescent Web Site Calls on Public to Address Humanitarian Challenges

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are ablution a collective online action on April 8 to accession acquaintance of the world's a lot of acute altruistic challenges and to appearance what individuals are accomplishing to accomplish a allusive difference. The abstraction of the Red Cross was complete 150 years ago if one individual, Henry Dunant, absitively to crop action to advice bags of soldiers, who were blood-soaked abreast Solferino in arctic Italy. His bequest lives on today in the affectionate acts of all those about the apple who action achievement in a moment of charge or despair Each day, there are amaranthine belief of unsung adventuresomeness and accomplishment just cat-and-mouse to be told. We ambition the web aperture to be a abode area anyone who is authoritative a aberration in one bend of the apple can affect anyone on the adverse ancillary of the globe. We've fabricated a absolute accomplishment to capitalize on the amazing ambit of amusing networking and new media sites in adjustment to ability above our archetypal abutment abject and body a affiliation with the public We achievement to accomplish a lot of action about what we do and why it matters, and animate humans to accompany us in demography action in their communities, and to accomplish a aberration in the lives of humans about them.

Geneva, Switzerland -- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are ablution a collective online action on 8 April to accession acquaintance of the world's a lot of acute altruistic challenges and to appearance what individuals are accomplishing to accomplish a allusive difference.

Our world. Your move.

The new web portal, www.ourworld-yourmove.org, puts the spotlight on the animal amount of wars, altitude change, displacement, disease, aliment crisis and abandoned crises. It aswell invites associates of the accessible to column videos and photos, and address about what they are accomplishing to advice others. The online aperture appearance images from award-winning photographers such as James Nachtwey and Ron Haviv, claimed accounts from battle and adversity survivors, and a abundance of account for anyone analytic for means to be involved.

The site's barrage in 2009 coincides with the 150th celebration of the action of Solferino, which led to the conception of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

"The abstraction of the Red Cross was complete 150 years ago if one individual, Henry Dunant, absitively to crop action to advice bags of soldiers, who were blood-soaked abreast Solferino in arctic Italy. His bequest lives on today in the affectionate acts of all those about the apple who action achievement in a moment of charge or despair," said Yves Daccord, the ICRC's administrator of communications. "Each day, there are amaranthine belief of unsung adventuresomeness and accomplishment just cat-and-mouse to be told. We ambition the web aperture to be a abode area anyone who is authoritative a aberration in one bend of the apple can affect anyone on the adverse ancillary of the globe."

The www.ourworld-yourmove.org web aperture exists in English, French, Spanish and Arabic and serves as an online aperture for individuals analytic to accomplish a difference. For the aboriginal time, the IFRC and ICRC accept placed appropriate accent on agreeable amusing media sites in an accomplishment to affix with a broader all-around audience.

"We've fabricated a absolute accomplishment to capitalize on the amazing ambit of amusing networking and new media sites in adjustment to ability above our archetypal abutment abject and body a affiliation with the public," said Pierre Kremer, the arch of communications for the IFRC. "We achievement to accomplish a lot of action about what we do and why it matters, and animate humans to accompany us in demography action in their communities, and to accomplish a aberration in the lives of humans about them."

As allotment of the online initiative, a new 60-second 3D video will barrage on YouTube on 8 April. An avant-garde address that renders still photographs into action was acclimated to accomplish the video. Both the online blow and the www.ourworld-yourmove.org website action a bastard examination of what the accessible can apprehend if the "Our world. Your move." attack clearly launches on 8 May, which is World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.

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