Norges Røde Kors

Norges Røde Kors is a non-governmental organisation based in Oslo, Norway working on humanitarian aid & disaster relief, health, refugees & migration +4 more.

Norges Røde Kors is the Norwegian Red Cross, Norway's largest voluntary humanitarian organisation and part of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It works to prevent and relieve human suffering in Norway and internationally. Its activities include emergency response and search and rescue through the volunteer corps, first aid training, blood donation services in cooperation with hospital blood banks, visiting services for lonely people, youth and children's activities, holiday programmes for families and children, support for refugees and newly arrived people, and conference and camp facilities run through its centres (Eidene, Merket and Haraldvigen). Its work is based on volunteer engagement at national and local level, with local associations across Norway. The organisation states that over 90 percent of donations go to the people who need them most, and it operates a whistleblower channel and anti-corruption policy.