ICRC is called SPR (Suomen Punainen Risti, Finnish Red Cross) in Finland. They are doing work locally in Finland and also globally all around the world. In Finland they do a lot of prevention work with young and unemployed people. Also they are helping poor people by giving them food and clothes. In addition, they are organizing and teaching first aid skill courses and organizing blood donation in Finland. Volunteer workers of SPR in Finland work in over 500 local branches. Finnish Red Cross work-ers are helping people in different accidents and crises (situations including fire dam-ages, natural disasters, traffic accidents, being a victim of crime and disasters). They also work with asylum seekers in different situations and they are helping
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It seems that the world situation is going worse. There are wars and conflicts around the world and more people who need help. More refugees, more homeless and sick people who have nothing left, even food, clothes, medicine or clean water. There are more refugees all over the world who are experiencing cri-sis and need help and support. For example in Finland government doesn’t have any extra money to help people with so there are more people needing help. Therefore organizations such as ICRC have to act. In my opinion, governments should help more but obviously they can´t and health organizations have to do their govern-ment’s jobs. I think organizations are quite significant already. That’s good, we need them also but governments have to do something for this bad …show more content…
I could do volunteer work here in Finland, but that doesn’t demand my knowledge, working skills or work-ing experience. In Finland I could work in SPR with blood donors as a nurse.
Or I could just join them as a delegate worker if my life situation allows it. At the moment it doesn´t allow. The Red Cross delegates work all around the world and deliver aid where it is needed the most. Delegate workers are working in disaster ar-eas and also in different kind of long-term development co-operation projects. To be a delegate worker could be quite hard because they have to see many difficulties but also they are one of the first people to help. ICRC is looking for nurses, engineers, midwifes, doctors and so on. So I could work there as a delegate nurse or midwife. (Finnish Red Cross 2014 - 4.)
ICRC is choosing suitable delegates from their personnel reserve when it´s needed. People can join ICRC reserves after they have passed their training course. Finnish Red Cross is organizing the course and there the teaching language will be English. From the delegate reserve, ICRC can pick delegate at any moment to work any-where in the world. (Finnish Red Cross 2014 -
It seems that the world situation is going worse. There are wars and conflicts around the world and more people who need help. More refugees, more homeless and sick people who have nothing left, even food, clothes, medicine or clean water. There are more refugees all over the world who are experiencing cri-sis and need help and support. For example in Finland government doesn’t have any extra money to help people with so there are more people needing help. Therefore organizations such as ICRC have to act. In my opinion, governments should help more but obviously they can´t and health organizations have to do their govern-ment’s jobs. I think organizations are quite significant already. That’s good, we need them also but governments have to do something for this bad …show more content…
I could do volunteer work here in Finland, but that doesn’t demand my knowledge, working skills or work-ing experience. In Finland I could work in SPR with blood donors as a nurse.
Or I could just join them as a delegate worker if my life situation allows it. At the moment it doesn´t allow. The Red Cross delegates work all around the world and deliver aid where it is needed the most. Delegate workers are working in disaster ar-eas and also in different kind of long-term development co-operation projects. To be a delegate worker could be quite hard because they have to see many difficulties but also they are one of the first people to help. ICRC is looking for nurses, engineers, midwifes, doctors and so on. So I could work there as a delegate nurse or midwife. (Finnish Red Cross 2014 - 4.)
ICRC is choosing suitable delegates from their personnel reserve when it´s needed. People can join ICRC reserves after they have passed their training course. Finnish Red Cross is organizing the course and there the teaching language will be English. From the delegate reserve, ICRC can pick delegate at any moment to work any-where in the world. (Finnish Red Cross 2014 -