The Red Cross is an organization that is close to the heart of the Danish royal family. For many years, Prince Henrik was the patron of the organization and deeply involved in their work. After Prince Henrik’s death, Crown Prince Frederik took over his father’s patronage. On January 26th 2022, the Danish Crown Prince received an update on the organisation’s work to help Afghan refugees is going.
Through the project “Friends Show the Way”, which is a nationwide collaboration between the Red Cross and the Danish Refugee Council, more than 9.000 refugees have been assigned a volunteer friend or family of friends since 2016. Crown Prince Frederik joined a meeting at the organization’s volunteer house, where he had the opportunity to talk to three of the Afghans who were evacuated from Afghanistan last year and employees and volunteers from The Red Cross, which, among other things, helps refugees to settle in Denmark.
During the meeting, the Crown Prince was also briefed on the current situation in Afghanistan by the organisation’s disaster chief. To create and foster a greater awareness for relief efforts closer to home, His Royal Highness in 2017 led the creation of the Red Cross Volunteer House located in Copenhagen. In April 2018, Crown Prince Frederik attended a refugee camp in Bangladesh where the Red Cross was working.
The Red Cross is involved in humanitarian and social work, both in Denmark and abroad. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement was originally founded in 1863 with the Denmark Red Cross being founded in 1876 as a member of the humanitarian organisation that spans the entire globe to provide disaster relief. The Red Cross of Denmark has nearly 34,000 volunteers who provide aid both domestically and abroad.
