Ukrainian Red Cross Society

Mandate and Missions

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society is a voluntary nation wide humanitarian public organization.

We work where people need assistance, support and advice.

Anybody, who is in trouble, whether it is loneliness, disease, poverty, unemployment, loss of family links or an armed conflict, can appeal to the workers of the Red Cross to decide the problem arisen in his life.

Volunteers and workers of the Red Cross are always beside you. We are implementing more than 40 projects and programs over the whole country.

Thanks to the scale of our activities, a number of regional branches and broad international cooperation the Society is one of the leading non-governmental organizations working in humanitarian field.

The main aim of the Society is to protect human life, prevent and alleviate suffering during armed conflicts, natural disasters, catastrophes and accidents, provide assistance to medical services of armed forces and health authorities, assist to the Ukrainian state authorities in their humanitarian activity. ‘…The mentioned aim is achieved completely unprejudiced, without any national, racial, sexual, religious, language, class, and political discrimination…’ (extract from the Statutes of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society).

 

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