The Red Cross of Monaco (french: Croix-Rouge monégasque) is the national

Red Cross Society The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the world's largest group of non-governmental organizations working on humanitarian aid, is composed of the following bodies: *The ''International Committee of the Red Cross'' (ICRC), a comm ...

Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

, founded in 1948 by Louis II of Monaco in the aftermath of the

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Presidency

* 1948 - 1949: Prince Louis of Monaco * 1949 -

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

: Prince Rainier of Monaco *

- 1982:

Princess Grace of Monaco Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956. Kelly ...

* 1982 - present: Prince Albert of Monaco

Fundraising

The Monaco Red Cross's largest fundraising event is the annual Red Cross Gala, which takes place in the Salle des Étoiles of Sporting Monte-Carlo. A yearly clearance sale is also held on "World Cross Day" in May, raising awareness and finances for the charity. The organization has an annual aid budget of €7,000,000, and assists 20 to 40 counties affected by

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famine A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompani ...

, and natural disasters each year.

References

External links

Official Monaco Red Cross Web SiteRed Cross of Monaco - IFRC

1948 establishments in Monaco Organizations established in 1948 Medical and health organisations based in Monaco {{Monaco-stub