Sri Padmavathi Women’s Degree & PG College

YOUTH RED CROSS

Indian Red Cross Society is a premier humanitarian organization which through its seven principles continued to do the activities which has been acclaimed by all sections of society nationally and internationally without any expectation. “The youth of today is the driving force of tomorrow” a famous quote by Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the former Prime Minister of India reminds that, it is our duty to mould the youth to become socially useful citizens of the country.

The International Red Cross movement is the well-known and worldwide humanitarian organization, present in almost all the countries. The motto of Youth Red Cross (YRC) is "to serve". The Youth Red Cross is the most important constituent of its mother organization, Indian Red Cross Society. It is a group movement organized at the initial stages for students between 18 and 25 years of age within the colleges. Under the guidance of Programme Officer, the students are trained and encouraged to manage various programmes.

Sri Padmavathi Women’s Degree & PG College (A), has visualized the need for grooming the youth for the new generation. The College has come out with a historic directive to enrol the youthin the collegein the Indian Red Cross Society under the banner of Youth Red Cross. Each generation passes on the torch of development to the next. Hence it becomes the challenge for the present generation to groom the future of tomorrow and that is the ‘Youth’.

The fundamental principles of Red Cross movement are:

Humanity
Impartiality
Neutrality
Independence
Voluntary service
Unity
Universality
Red Cross society function with the one and only aim of serving people under distress without any consideration of caste, religion, language and nationality.

Youth Red Cross has the following three principles:

Protection of health and life
Service to the sick and suffering
Promotion of national and international friendship to develop the mental and moral capacities of the youth.