ZAGREB, March 22 (Hina) - The Croatian Red Cross (HCK) on Friday
held a convention on which results on last year's humanitarian work
and basic programs for 1996 were given.
Last year, HCK provided care for around 400,000 people, said
HCK president Ruza Pospis-Baldani.
A programme of providing help for elderly people who remained
in the liberated areas which was carried out with the assistance of
the HCK, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and
the International Federation of the Red Crescent (IFRC) gave good
results.
Five thousand elderly and abandoned people had been visited,
400 of which were placed in proper institutions, IFRC's Sten
Swedlund said.
Head of the ICRC delegation, Alex Braundwalder, said that an
international iniciative for the removal of mines and bringing the
danger of 3 million unexploded mines to public awareness would
begin next week. Croatian Red Cross volunteers will also
participate.
Besides receiving and distributing humanitarian help and
social welfare for refugees, displaced persons, returnees, invalids
and children, the HCK closed 187 missing persons' cases last year.
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