The Macau Red Cross ( pt, Cruz Vermelha Macau, ) is a branch of the
Red Cross
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a Humanitarianism, humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million Volunteering, volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure re ...
in
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
. The headquarters is in the China Civil Plaza () in
Sé. It also has a Medical Transfer Centre () in the Edificio Industrial Hap Si () in ,
Nossa Senhora de Fátima.
It is the humanitarian organisation in the territory that has existed for the longest time.
The previous head office is in
São Lourenço.
History
The 's presence in Macau began in 1920,
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/ref> and became established as a delegation in 1943. A chapter of the book ''The Red Cross Movement'' described the Macau Red Cross as "simultaneously, a local creation, a delegation integrated into a national/colonial context, an inter-imperial structure and part of a transnational institution with global reach." The Macau Red Cross left the Portuguese organisation and joined the Red Cross Society of China
The Red Cross Society of China () is the national Red Cross Society in the People's Republic of China.
Origins and history before 1949
The Red Cross Society of China was founded as the Shanghai International Red Cross Committee on March 10, 19 ...
effective 20 December 1999.[
It supports a school in , ]Shiqian County
Shiqian County () is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Tongren, in the northeast of Guizhou Province, China.
Area: .
Population: 370,000 in 2002.
Postal Code: 555100.
The government is located in Tangshan town. ...
, Tongren
Tongren () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, located within a tobacco planting and crop agricultural area. Tongren was known as Tongren Prefecture () until November 2011, when it was converted into ...
, Guizhou
Guizhou (; Postal romanization, formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in the Southwest China, southwest region of the China, People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the pr ...
: Melco Crown-Macau Red Cross Bo-Ai Primary School (). It first opened in 1964 and had its current facility open in 2017.
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Macau Red Cross
Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies
1920 establishments in China
Medical and health organisations based in Macau
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