- •Сборник текстов для индивидуального чтения
- •Часть II/Part II
- •Часть I. Part I. Text 1. Parents Urged to Talk to Children
- •Text 2. Hooked on the net
- •Text 3. How Does It Feel to Be an American Teen?
- •Text 4. How To Become Popular?
- •Text 5. How do teenagers deal with their parents rules?
- •Text 6. Survey Showed Increasing Drug Use Among Youth
- •Text 7. Homeless Young homelessness is a problem which is getting worse and worse. In Britain there are about 150,000 teenagers who have run away from home.
- •Text 8. Russians Distrust Globalization Which They Don't Understand
- •By Marina Pustilnik, Moscow News
- •(The free Internet-based encyclopedia, Wikipedia)
- •Text 9. A Tale of Two Rivals
- •Text 10. Inner City Kids Keen to Do Well School report paints optimistic picture of learning against the odds
- •Text 11. Saving Youth From Violence
- •Text 12. Young Entrepreneurs
- •Text 13. Mother Teresa of Calcutta An interview with the woman who has done so much to alleviate the suffering of the sick and poor.
- •Text 14. The War on Drugs: a Losing Battle?
- •The government has approved a new program to fight illegal drugs, but there seems to be little chance for success
- •Mn File opinion
- •Text 15. How to Live to 120 and Beyond
- •The Russian Academy of Sciences (ras) has launched an anti-aging program
- •Text 16. Buddy, can you spare a book?
- •Часть II. Part II. Text 1. Social Work. A View from the usa.
- •Text 2. Social Service
- •Text 3. Family, Elderly and Children Welfare
- •Text 4. Social Work Training and Social Services
- •Text 5. Child Welfare in the usa
- •Text 6. People with Disabilities
- •Text 7. Social Agencies. Red Cross
- •Text 8. Social Agencies. Salvation Army.
- •Text 9. Social Agencies. Young Men’s Christian Association
- •Text 10. Social Agencies. Médecins Sans Frontières
- •Text 11. Social Workers. Emily Greene Balch
- •Text 12. Social Workers. Martha McChesney Berry
- •Text 13. Hospice
- •Источники
Text 7. Social Agencies. Red Cross
Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency dedicated, in time of war, to alleviating the sufferings of wounded soldiers, civilians, and prisoners of war. In time of peace, it renders medical aid and other help to people afflicted by major disasters such as floods, earthquakes, epidemics, and famines and performs other public service functions. Red Cross societies activities include first aid, accident prevention, water safety, training of nurses' aids and mothers' assistants, and maintenance of maternal and child welfare centres and medical clinics, blood banks, and numerous other services.
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement consists of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and more than 160 national Red Cross societies.
Initiative for founding the Red Cross came from the 19th-century Swiss humanitarian Jean Henri Dunant who, at the Battle of Solferino, in June 1859, organized emergency aid services for Austrian and French wounded. Seeing the almost complete lack of care for wounded soldiers, he appealed to the leaders of nations to found societies devoted to the aid of the wounded in wartime. Five Swiss citizens formed a committee and issued a call for an international conference, which was held in Geneva in October. Official delegates of 12 nations signed the first Geneva Convention, laying down rules for the treatment of the wounded and for the protection of medical personnel and hospitals. It was also at this meeting that the famous symbol of the movement, the white flag bearing a red cross, was adopted.
The American Red Cross (officially The American National Red Cross) was founded in 1881 by the American humanitarian Clara Barton. The American Red Cross acts as a medium of communication between members of the armed forces and their families; carries on a system of national and international relief to alleviate suffering caused by pestilence, flood, fire, and other disasters; and devises measures for preventing such calamities.
American Red Cross services are organized into several programs. Services to the armed forces and veterans help in solving personal problems. This program provides counseling and in emergencies, facilitates rapid communications and makes available financial assistance.
The blood services program is the largest blood donor service in the world. Blood given by volunteers, is collected, processed, and made available to physicians and hospitals for the use of patients.
In the youth involvement program, young people take responsibility in leading, planning, and carrying out Red Cross services in a community, such as first aid, small-craft and water safety, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The nursing and health services program enrolls nurses to serve in disasters, sponsors classes in home nursing and preparation for parenthood, works in the blood services program, and assists in other health services provided for communities.
The American Red Cross has more than 1.5 million volunteers participating in activities that are supported mainly by voluntary contributions through United Way and annual Red Cross campaigns.
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Notes:
to alleviate the sufferings – облегчить страдания;
Red Crescent – Красный полумесяц;
to issue a call – зд. обратиться с призывом;
pestilence – чума, мор;
physicians [fi’zi∫(ә)n] – врач, доктор;
cardiopulmonary resuscitation - восстановление сердечной деятельности и дыхания (непрямой массаж сердца и вентиляция легких).