La Croix Rouge de Maurice est très préoccupée par le besoin humanitaire de la population haïtienne.  La Fédération Internationale des Sociétés  de la Croix Rouge et du Croissant Rouge (FICR) a lancé un appel préliminaire de fonds d’urgence pour 10 millions de francs Suisse (6.8 million d’euros) pour venir en aide aux haïtiens.
Le fond de [...]

La Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS), en collaboration avec ‘Free and Reunited Together (Free ART)’ de l’Université de Maurice, a organisé un ‘NGO Fair 2009’ le 10 et 11 février 2009 à l’auditorium Octave Wiehe, Université de Maurice.
Les objectifs de cet événement étaient :
·        De regrouper un maximum d’ONGs  sur le campus
·        De faire connaitre [...]

The volunteers of the National Society have been on duty as first aiders for the pilgrims to the Ganga Talao as from Thursday 19 February 2009.
Under the supervision of Navin Mahadoo, some 20 volunteers will be on duty on a 24hr basis until 13hrs on Monday 23 February 2009. Many pilgrims have already started their [...]

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo has been named ambassador for the UEFA EURO 2008™ Score for the Red Cross online fundraising campaign which kicked off on 26 March.
Purchase virtual goals
Internet users will be able to help their favourite side win the title of Most Humanitarian Team by purchasing virtual goals on scorefortheredcross.org. The winning team will [...]

MRCS helps in natural calamities, health education, providing First Aid and First Aid Courses, and in various social and community services.
A) Mauritius Red Cross contributes to the improvement of health, prevention of disease and mitigation of suffering by programmes of training and services for the benefit of the community. These are adapted to national [...]

Les sept Principes fondamentaux régissent l’activité de tous les employés et volontaires de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge à travers le monde. Adoptés en 1965, ils définissent le cadre de leur action humanitaire et servent de référence pour promouvoir les idéaux et les valeurs humanitaires du Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge.
Les Principes [...]

Proclaimed in Vienna in 1965, the seven Fundamental Principles bond together the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, The International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. They guarantee the continuity of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and its humanitarian work.
Humanity
The International Red [...]

Henry Dunant (1828-1910) : The man whose vision led to the creation of the worldwide Red Cross and Red Crescent movement; he went from riches to rags but became joint recipient of the first Nobel peace prize.
Henry Dunant, who was born in Geneva on 8 May 1828, came from a devout and charitable Calvinist family. [...]

The Red Cross emblem was officially approved in Geneva in 1863, the same year as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was founded. The emblem, endorsed by the 16 signatories of the Geneva Conventions on international humanitarian law, is based on the Swiss flag with colors reversed.

The Red Crescent emblem was first used [...]

Thanks for your visit to www.mauritiusredcross.com website.
We are currently re-working on the site, so any suggestions which would help us and help the people of Mauritius is most welcome.
Mauritius Red Cross Society with the new website would able to provide much more information, and redesigning the website would be the best way. Internet being the [...]