Why disaster, conflict, and public health need more than one kind of red-cross institution

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement exists because emergency response and disaster relief is not a problem that solves itself. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is made up of three independent parts, united by a purpose of helping without discrimination and by shared Fundamental Principles.

Those parts are the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. National Societies provide disaster relief, health, and social programs in their own countries. The ICRC focuses on people affected by armed conflict and on humanitarian law. The Federation supports the volunteer network of National Societies before, during, and after disasters and health emergencies. The parts meet and coordinate so the Movement can act together.

Support matters when the underlying conditions remain: illness, hunger, displacement, a classroom without materials, a habitat under pressure, a right that is not enforced, or a public system people cannot use. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is one organization working on that kind of condition. It is not the only one, and this page does not rank it against others.

Losing lottery tickets are a small and specific source of value. Looty Foundation's interest is that small amounts, recorded honestly and directed to an organization, are more useful than tickets that are thrown away. That is an argument for paying attention to disaster & humanitarian relief work. It is not a statistic about how many people International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement reached this year, unless the organization itself has published that figure and this article has cited it. This article does not add numbers that were not needed to explain the mission.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is made up of three independent parts, united by a purpose of helping without discrimination and by shared Fundamental Principles. That is point 1 in the public account behind “Why disaster, conflict, and public health need more than one kind of red-cross institution.” It describes International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s own work on emergency response and disaster relief, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about disaster & humanitarian relief.

Those parts are the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. That is point 2 in the public account behind “Why disaster, conflict, and public health need more than one kind of red-cross institution.” It describes International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s own work on emergency response and disaster relief, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about disaster & humanitarian relief.

National Societies provide disaster relief, health, and social programs in their own countries. That is point 3 in the public account behind “Why disaster, conflict, and public health need more than one kind of red-cross institution.” It describes International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s own work on emergency response and disaster relief, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about disaster & humanitarian relief.

The ICRC focuses on people affected by armed conflict and on humanitarian law. That is point 4 in the public account behind “Why disaster, conflict, and public health need more than one kind of red-cross institution.” It describes International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s own work on emergency response and disaster relief, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about disaster & humanitarian relief.

The Federation supports the volunteer network of National Societies before, during, and after disasters and health emergencies. That is point 5 in the public account behind “Why disaster, conflict, and public health need more than one kind of red-cross institution.” It describes International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s own work on emergency response and disaster relief, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about disaster & humanitarian relief.

The parts meet and coordinate so the Movement can act together. That is point 6 in the public account behind “Why disaster, conflict, and public health need more than one kind of red-cross institution.” It describes International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s own work on emergency response and disaster relief, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about disaster & humanitarian relief.

Continued support is a choice to keep funding the kind of effort International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement describes: emergency response and disaster relief. The organization's site is the place to see how it talks about that effort today. A Foundation profile is the place to see whether any Looty Foundation allocation has actually been recorded.

Readers who want the neighboring explanations can open the article on why this mission matters to Looty Foundation, or the article on how International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement describes its work. Both stay with this organization. They do not try to borrow urgency from an unrelated cause.