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Jordan : Red Cross Red Crescent setting up field hospital to meet the escalating needs of Syrian refugees

08/29/2013

Geneva / 29 August 2013 – The crisis in Syria continues to have a devastating impact on the life of all Syrians, including on the hundreds of thousands who have been forced to flee to neighbouring countries. The large influx of refugees from Syria is also exerting increased pressure at the borders of neighbouring countries. In response to the mounting humanitarian needs, the Red Cross Red Crescent is setting up a field hospital in a new refugee camp near…

HENRY DUNANT

08/28/2007

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Contributing Writers, Hayward Beywood

Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, born in Geneva on 8 May 1828, was the first child of a wealthy, religious, humanitarian and privileged household. (Note that although he was baptised Jean-Henri, the most common way that he wrote his name was “Henry”.) He seemed destined to become a priest, but he was so hopeless at French, mathematics and particularly Latin that this idea had to be abandoned. As a young man, around 1848, Dunant took part…