Volunteer of the Serbian Red Cross / Volonter Crvenog krsta Srbije

Hello dear virtual friends, here I am again today :) While browsing the front page of Facebook, I came across some photos of volunteers and I wanted to share with you the story of my volunteering in the Serbian Red Cross.

I have been a volunteer for many years and I am really proud of that. I feel somehow happy and important when I do something nice and useful for both individuals and the whole community. During these 15 years that I have been in it, I have gone through various programs.

My favorite program I’ve worked on is “Fighting Human Trafficking”. A really deep and significant topic. Our job was to work on teaching children and youth how to be recruited, what are the preventive measures, how to protect themselves. Really very nice topic.

This in the picture is me and my friend Andjelka with our "Zorka". Zorka was a victim of trafficking in this case.

The other program I worked on is also very dear to me is "Acting in Accidents and Emergencies." Many hours of hard and physically strenuous training ... But it paid off, in December 2016, the city where I live simply stopped. Due to the strong winter and snow deposits, the glaciers chained and knocked down the transmission line. Five days without electricity, water and heating, in the middle of winter ... We broke through the snow to the farthest places to deliver basic food for people ...

And of course, by no means a small "First Aid" program. Very useful program. Interesting for children, and God forbid for us "big children" :)

In addition to everything we do, we always find places to hang out, meet new people, travel ... I wrote in one of the previous posts about the Migrant Crisis, there we were in the field from different cities. The Red Cross is like another family. If there is a Red Cross - Red Crescent organization in your city, apply, volunteer, it is a very nice and unforgettable experience :)

Did you know that in the hall of the Geneva Red Cross there is a board with the inscription: "Be humane, as Serbia was in 1885"?

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Zdravo dragi virtuelni prijatelji evo mene danas opet :) Listajuci naslovnu stranu Facebook-a naletela sam na neke fotografije volontera i pozelela sam da sa vama podelim pricu o mom volonterstvu u Crvenom krstu Srbije.

Dugi niz godina sam volonter i stvarno se ponosim time. Osecam se nekako srecno i vazno kada ucinim nesto lepo i korisno kako za pojedince tako i za celu zajednicu. Tokom ovih 15 godina koliko sam u tome, prosla sam razne programe.

Meni najdrazi program na kome sam radila je "Borba protiv trgovine ljudima". Zaista duboka i znacajna tema. Nas posao je bio da radimo na poducavanju dece i omladine na koji nacin mogu biti vrbovani, koje su preventivne mere, kako se zastititi. Stvarno jako lepa tema.

Ovo na slici smo ja i prijateljica Andjelka sa nasom "Zorkom". Zorka je predstavljala zrtvu trgovine u ovom slucaju.

Drugi program na kome sam radila i meni je jako drag jeste "Delovanje u nesrecama i vanrednim situacijama". Mnogo sati teske i fizicki naporne obuke... Ali isplatilo se, decembra 2016 godine, grad u kome zivim je jednostavno stao. Zbog jake zime i sneznih nanosa, ledenice su okovale i oborile dalekovod. Pet dana bez struje, vode i grejanja, u sred zime... Probijali smo ze kroz sneg do najudaljenijih mesta da bi ljudima dostavili osnovne namirnice za zivot...

I naravno, nikako mali program "Pruzanje prve pomoci". Jako koristan program. Deci interesantan, a boga mi i nama "velikog deci" :)

Pored svega sto radimo uvek nadjemo i mesta za druzenje, upoznajemo nove ljude, putujemo... Pisala sam bila u nekom o predhodnih postova o Migrantskoj krizi, tamo nas je na terenu bilo iz razlicitih gradova. Crveni krst je kao druga porodica. Ukoliko u vasem gradu postoji organizacija Crvenog krsta - Crvenog polumeseca, prijavite se, volontirajte, to je jedno jako lepo i nezaboravno iskustvo :)

Da li ste znali da u holu Zenevskog crvenog krsta stoji tabla sa natpisom: "Budi human, kao sto je Srbija bila 1885.godine"?