Blue Cross & Blue Crescent Movement (BC) has been registered under the India Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 Registration Number S-E/682/2015 and Registered 12AA with Section 12A and 80G (5) (vi) w.e.f. 26.06.2018 of the Income Tax Act 1961, FCRA 2010 under section 11(1) w.e.f. 14.03.2018, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
Blue Cross & Blue Crescent Movement (BC) has been Affiliated to United Nation-DESA and Accreditation with The European Union (europa.eu).
The Blue Cross and Blue Crescent (BC) is a Worldwide non-profit, charitable, non-governmental, politically and religiously neutral humanitarian response agency involved in disaster response, first response, search and rescue, life-guarding, front-line activism, advocacy and skills-sharing organisation.
Our strength lies in our volunteer network of community-based humanitarian workers, medics, first-aiders, first responders, lifeguards, rescue workers, activists, advocates, lobbyists, and educators who offer their skills in service ‘For all humanity’. We actively persuade decision makers to act at all times in the interests of vulnerable or at risk people and communities. We were created to enable all interested humanitarian workers, to offer their skills, in particularly, as first-aider’s and first responders covering high risk events and lifeguard cover, to enable medical and healthcare professionals to offer their skills as humanitarian medics for the promotion of humanitarian community public health, to improve humanitarian standards, to poverty regions, disaster stricken or disaster vulnerable regions, to enable all interested humanitarian rescue workers to offer their skills in those disaster stricken regions, and to provide education programs in disaster awareness, preparation & prevention, survival skills, emergency planning in disaster vulnerable regions. Our programs help us improve humanitarian standards, assist as partners in response to disasters, enable safe, secure and healthy communities, reduce vulnerabilities, strengthen resilience, and promote a culture of peace around the world.
We operate the Federation of Blue Cross and Blue Crescent Societies (FBC) a non-governmental humanitarian agency that reaches out through its 198 National Societies throughout the world. We also operate the Committee of the Blue Cross and Blue Crescent, and a number of other component non-governmental humanitarian agencies such as the Federation of Blue Cross and Blue Crescent Organisations (FBCO).
The Blue Cross and Blue Crescent’s fundamental objective is to work to guide and support the development of its bilateral partner component agencies, to provide capacity building support, and it does this in cooperation with other partner NGOs that form the Federation of Blue Cross and Blue Crescent Organisations (FBCO).
