The Second Red Cross Society

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The Second Red Cross Society is a volunteer humanitarian organization that provides disaster relief, emergency assistance, and education across human-controlled space. It functions in a similar manner as the original Red Cross/Red Crescent organizations on Earth did, hundreds of years before. It is an independent organization that employs self-regulation and offers aid where it is needed. The International Committee of the Red Cross had existed hundreds of years before the nations of Earth entered into World War III, but was disbanded following the end of the war in 2157. The Second Red Cross Society was established in the year 2259, more than a century later.

The Second Red Cross Society is dedicated to providing humanitarian aid across the various colonized star systems. In each colonized system, there is a base of operations, usually located in a planetary capital. Smaller installations in the form of space stations and planetary outposts are maintained to provide aid to harder to reach locations and colonies. The organization relies entirely on volunteer labor and funding from private benefactors. The main benefactors include a few especially affluent individuals, but are mostly composed of corporate entities. Nanotrasen is the largest benefactor of the Second Red Cross Society.

Until the year 2376, the organization has been almost entirely composed of human volunteers. Following that year, regulations were relaxed, allowing individuals of different species to join the society. Of the nearly 500 million volunteers that are a part of the Second Red Cross Society, about 12% are of a species other than human. Of that percentage, 78% are Skrell, 21% are Tajaran, and only 1% are Unathi.

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