Youth Red Cross
The Youth Red Cross ( JRK ) is the youth organization of the Red Cross . Internationally, the Red Cross Youth ( RCY ) is called the Red Cross Youth ( RCY ), in some countries the name Junior Red Cross ( JRC ) or Kids Red Cross is also common.
The JRK has set itself the task of introducing young people to the ideas of the Red Cross. Its goals are social engagement, commitment to health and the environment, action for peace and international understanding , political and social co-responsibility. The Youth Red Cross works with schools, educational institutions, other youth associations and initiatives. Youth Red Cross members are committed to the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement .
The range of tasks of the Red Cross Youth is very differentiated according to regional circumstances and staff. In addition to youth association work, the focus is on school work with school medical services and school dispute resolution ( mediation ) as well as making up and depicting injuries for exercise purposes ( emergency portrayal ), but also the design of holiday camps for own members and interested parties from outside.
history
In the JRK publications, the establishment of permanent youth Red Cross structures is often given as the years 1914 (in Canada ) to 1919 (in America ). But even before this time there were individual activities by children and young people under the care of the Red Cross.
The beginning of the youth Red Cross movement goes back to the year 1870, when for the first time in the Dutch province of South Holland , together with the branch association of Leiden , a call for school children to participate in Red Cross activities to collect donations for the victims of the Franco-German War took place. Other well-known activities followed in Bulgaria in 1885 . In 1892, on the occasion of the fifth International Red Cross Conference in Rome , representatives of the Red Cross of Moravia reported on their youth Red Cross activities (care work). Subsequently, activities for the years 1896 in Spain , 1899 in South Africa and 1906 in America can be verified. Here, for example, helped children under the Red Cross in alleviating the suffering of the victims of the earthquake of San Francisco .
Especially during the First World War , youth Red Cross structures were expanded in America, Canada and Australia . Before the First World War, however, the peace activities of the Red Cross were not yet sufficiently developed to maintain permanent youth organizations. It was not until the war, the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies (1919) and its own JRK department (1922), that a permanent youth Red Cross structure was set up and expanded step by step.
In 1922, a resolution of the General Council of the League of Red Cross Societies was passed for the first time, in which the National Red Cross Societies are strongly recommended "to win over the school youth for the youth Red Cross movement". Support from the societies should find above all the exchange of school letters and the exchange of albums as possible youth Red Cross activities. At this point in time, in 1922, youth structures were already in place in 21 countries. By March 1925, there were a total of 34 JRK organizations.
In Europe, new JRC organizations were founded in Hungary and Poland in 1920, and in 1921 in Italy, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Norway, Yugoslavia and Switzerland. Austria, Romania, Sweden and France followed in 1922. In the following year Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands and in 1924 Greece were added. At that time, JRK structures were being set up in Gdansk and Finland; the foundation was planned in Spain; Luxembourg and Germany saw the possibility of setting up a youth Red Cross.
School work was the most important field of activity of the Youth Red Cross. “Overall, the aim was to familiarize the children with the ideas of the Red Cross so that the world would become a better place through this movement. It was believed that this ambitious goal could only be achieved with the help of teachers. So the organization plan was primarily tailored to the school, with the students as the basis and the teachers as the guides. "
The Solferino Youth Declaration
For the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in 2009, 250 young people from 128 countries in Solferino drew up a declaration and presented it on behalf of 50 million young volunteers of the Red Cross in Geneva :
In a world full of challenges, we - the youth of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement - commit to:
- drive profound change and skill development to foster harmony and positive behaviors within communities
- to live our seven principles as agents of behavioral change in our communities
- to renounce violence, to promote respect for diversity and a culture of peace in the world
- to fight against discrimination in our personal lives as well
- To do everything possible in accordance with International Humanitarian Law to reduce suffering in armed conflict and to actively disseminate information on the rules in armed conflict, even in peacetime.
European Youth Red Cross Networks
DACHL network
In the German-speaking area there is the German Youth Red Cross , Austrian Youth Red Cross (ÖJRK), Swiss Youth Red Cross and Luxembourg Red Cross. These have come together in the DACHL network. DA-CH-L is formed from the nationality symbols of the four participating organizations.
Campaign: your strengths. Your future. Without pressure!
The DACHL network started a joint campaign on May 26, 2007 with the title “Your strengths. Your future. Without pressure! ”The focus was on diverse expectations, insecurities and fears for the future that children and young people can put under pressure, as well as measures to encourage and support them. The campaign ran until June 2009.
EU Red Cross Youth Network
In 2007 the EU Red Cross Youth Network was founded (EURCYN for short). JRK representatives from all 27 member states of the European Union are members here. The aim is to give youth Red Cross members a voice in the EU. But also making contacts with each other and simplifying applications for EU funding are among the goals.
European Cooperation Meeting
The European Cooperation Meeting (ECM for short) was first organized in 1978 and takes place every two years. Volunteer and full-time youth representatives from 52 European Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies come together to exchange experiences. The program also includes a common policy for children and young people in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
German Youth Red Cross
The German Youth Red Cross (DJRK, JRK) is the recognized and responsible children and youth association of the German Red Cross . The DJRK has around 113,000 members who are divided into around 5,500 groups. The Youth Red Cross is organized at the federal level, state associations, district associations, district associations and local associations.
Austrian Youth Red Cross
| Austrian Youth Red Cross | |
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| legal form | Non-profit registered association |
| founding | 1922, Vienna (first foundation) February 14, 1948, Vienna (new foundation) |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| motto | Help goes to school! |
| main emphasis | Humanitarian aid , international humanitarian law , child and youth welfare |
| Chair | Manfred Wirtitsch |
| Members | approx. 60,000 |
| Website | www.jugendrotkreuz.at |
The Austrian Youth Red Cross (ÖJRK) is a sub-organization of the Austrian Red Cross . Like the Red Cross, the ÖJRK is a non-political and non-partisan organization whose task it is to lead young people to a humanitarian ethos and to behave towards human beings as well as to provide concrete help. The ÖJRK offers a comprehensive range of services for youth groups, teachers and students.
The Austrian Youth Red Cross has around 60,000 members (around 7,000 of them in youth groups) and is organized in 544 groups at local or district level. The regular membership age is between 6 and 26 years, members in management positions can be older. In 2013 Manfred Wirtitsch was appointed federal chairman, his deputy was Rüdiger Teutsch (both bm: ukk).
The national organizations of the Youth Red Cross are part of the respective national association. The field of work of the Youth Red Cross is the Austrian school. The youth organization for the classic activities of the Austrian Red Cross (rescue service, blood donation service, various social offers) is the Red Cross Youth.
Services offered by the ÖJRK
- Disaster relief and development cooperation through the project “Water is Life”, school building in Tanzania, tsunami aid
- Monthly ÖJRK student magazines: Hallo Schule !, Meine Welt, Mein Express, Space, Spot
- Integration and therapy through camps for the physically handicapped, youth vacation, rheumatism camp
- Health and environmental protection through first aid, peer education , service point for health education (GIVE)
- Peace and conflict culture through the organization of the International Study and Friendship Camp
Courses offered by the ÖJRK
RoKo
The Kindergarten program of the Red Cross Youth. Currently there are modules for first aid and traffic education, swimming in preparation.
Helfi will help you
The Helfi program brings elementary school pupils closer to first aid in a child-friendly way. The children should be made aware of frequent accident hazards and learn about various ways of preventing accidents. These first, basic first aid lessons are also intended to encourage them to attend further courses.
Voluntary cycling test
The aim of the voluntary cycling test, in which 86,000 children between the ages of ten and twelve take part every year, is the safe and responsible participation of children on public roads, as well as the knowledge of frequent accident risks.
First aid
In the introductory course for first aid and accident prevention, what has already been learned from elementary school (Helfi will help you) should be repeated and consolidated. In addition, the students learn other important first aid measures. The aim of the course is to provide the students with the necessary knowledge so that they can carry out life-saving emergency measures in life-threatening emergencies.
Swimming and lifeguarding
Every year, over 90,000 students take a swimming or lifeguard exam at the Austrian Red Cross Youth. The "wet" program of the ÖJRK includes the octopus badge (no age limit) and the courses for the Austrian swimmer badge ( ÖSA) - early, free, driving and all-round swimmers - as well as for the Austrian lifeguard badge (ÖRSA), the helper swimmer , Rescue, Lifesaver, Swimming Instructor and Lifeguarding Instructor Certificate.
CareFit (previously: care and care in the family)
The ÖJRK offers pupils from the 8th grade onwards a course that prepares them for this nursing and care. The course is intended to help promote and restore one's own health and that of the family and develop skills for self-help in the event of illness.
Baby fit
The ÖJRK also offers the “Babyfit” course for pupils from the 8th grade, in which knowledge about pregnancy, caring for babies, child care, nutrition, child needs and development, disease and accident prevention and legal issues are imparted. After the course, the young people receive a Babyfit ID .
Swiss Youth Red Cross
The Swiss Youth Red Cross is the youth organization of the Swiss Red Cross (SRK) . Members are young people between 16 and 30 years of age. The Youth Red Cross Organizations (JRK) have a federal structure and are affiliated with the cantonal Red Cross organizations. There are JRKs in the cantons of Basel, Bern-Mittelland, Biel, Friborg, Geneva, St. Gallen and Zurich.
The SRC Youth Competence Center in Bern takes on the coordination, networking and support tasks for all member organizations that are active in youth work. The youth magazine “ready for redcross” is published three times a year.
Main topics
Voluntary engagement includes first aid courses at the Help Samaritan Youth or the youth organization of the Military Sanitary Association (SMSV), training as a youth lifeguard at the SLRG and social engagement for people in difficult situations.
In training camps, weekends and courses, children and young people from Germany and abroad can learn and exchange ideas under the sign of the Red Cross.
literature
German Youth Red Cross
- Alfred Grimm: Aims and Paths: Workbook ; Published by the Lower Saxony state management of the German Youth Red Cross. Hanover 1948
- Götz Fehr: How does the Youth Red Cross work? Handbook for the teacher . Bonn 1951
- Götz Fehr: All are brothers: a companion for young people ; A commemorative gift issued by the German Red Cross on the occasion of the 125th birthday of the founder of the Red Cross J. Henry Dunant; Annual gift of the German Youth Red Cross. Hamburg 1953.
- Jürgen Axer: We - the Youth Red Cross 1925–1985 . Bonn 1985.
- German Red Cross: We - the Youth Red Cross 1925–1985 . Themed journal, supplement from Die Rotkreuz-Zeitung 10/1985. Bonn / Munich 1985.
- German Red Cross: The Youth Red Cross . Themed journal, supplement from Die Rotkreuz-Zeitung 7 / 8-1990. Bonn / Munich 1990.
- German Youth Red Cross: The jubilee JRK - 75 years . Bonn 2000.
Austrian Youth Red Cross
- Austrian Youth Red Cross: For humanity and peace . Vienna 1998, volume 1.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b José Gomez Ruiz: How the Junior Red Cross was born . In: International Review of the Red Cross . No. 36 . IRK, Geneva March 1964, p. 146–150 (English, full text on loc.gov [PDF; 2.7 MB ]).
- ↑ Jürgen Axer: We - the youth red cross 1925–1985 . Bonn 1985, page 10
- ↑ Jürgen Axer: We - the youth red cross 1925–1985 . Bonn 1985, page 18
- ↑ a b Gerd Cichlinski: origins, development and objectives of the Youth Red Cross in Germany . Koblenz 1978, p. 36
- ↑ Gerd Cichlinski: Origin, development and goals of the Youth Red Cross in Germany . Koblenz 1978, page 35
- ↑ Youth Declaration Solferino 2009. (PDF; 278 KB) In: jrk-bayern.de. 2009, archived from the original on December 31, 2013 ; accessed on November 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Campaign "Your strengths. Your future. Without pressure!" ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ European Youth Cooperation Meeting of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (EYCM) ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal management of the Austrian Youth Red Cross newly appointed. In: roteskreuz.at. June 13, 2013, accessed March 18, 2018 .
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ashashashash.com : The new school magazines & books from Jugendrotkreuz and Book Club , accessed on March 12, 2020
- ↑ ÖJRK course: "Babyfit"
