Honduran Red Cross
Honduran Red Cross is a no yielding institution, of social and voluntary interest that loans help to the population in risk or in disaster. It is part of the international organization Red Cross and Half Moon Red, whose misson is to relieve the human pain by means of immediate attentions of agreement to each situation in particular.
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 ladies was the organiser and patrocinadora of the group of Honduran lifeguards still no defined like Honduran Red Cross, being so in his requests to the government obtained a personería juridical to develop such activities in profit of the Honduran society and on 4 September of the same year the president in turn Doctor and general Tiburcio Carias Andean in a meeting in the Presidential House of Honduras is when it awards the constitutive legal recognition to the benemérita institution, organising a managerial board in which they projected promoters and members of the body, eat: lady 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, Club Rotario of Tegucigalpa. By means of Decree No. 475 issued in date 6 October 1937, the institution is known officially like Honduran Red Cross and with functions to make humanitarian actions in the national territory. Enriqueta of Lázarus in 1941, fungiendo like president de la Cruz Red Honduran, requests to the National Congress of Honduras issued a Law with which can establish an income in favour de la Cruz Red, is so it issued the "Law of the Income of the Stamp de la Cruz Red", said economic part that would receive the organisation, would be feasible to sustain independently and continue with the social services to the village.[1]
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 authorised to retain 40% of the economic helps collected by partners benefactores 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.[2]
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.[3]
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:
- Enriqueta Girón of Lázarus.
- Cleto Ramon Alvarez
- Meneca Of Mencía.
Paramédics
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 Neighbourhood Concepción, 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.
- Direction: Red Cross Youth Honduras (CRJH), 7ª. Street, between 1ª. And 2ª. Avenue, Comayagüela, M.D.C. Comayagüela, Telephone: +504 237-1800, 237-4628.
Emergencies
- Honduran Red cross (Emergencies) telephone: 195.
- Honduran Red cross (Headquarters) telephone: (504) 238-4024. 2237-1800, 2237-4628.
See also
Similar
- Honduran Green cross
Notes and references
Bibliography
- Durón, Jorge Fidel. Development and activities de la Cruz Red Honduran. Printing Calderón, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1943.
- Statutes and Regulations de la Cruz Red Honduran, Workshops Tipográficos National, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1937.