Humanitarian Education Centre
Introduction
“In the face of blatant inhumanity, the world has responded with disturbing paralysis. This flouts the very raison d'être of the United Nations. The world must reaffirm its humanity and uphold its commitments under international humanitarian law,” Ban Ki-moon, The Secretary-General of the United Nations once commented today’s conflicts on civilians.
We believe in the humanitarian values and fundamental principles advocated by the Red Cross Movement; we believe in every individual’s ability to prevent disasters and alleviate human sufferings, enabling people to live with dignity; we believe that, through humanitarian education, we can promote understanding, friendship, cooperation and lasting peace amongst people, and build a network with mutual support for the world.
In response to daily-increasing humanitarian challenges, Hong Kong Red Cross set up the Asia’s first “Humanitarian Education Centre” at the new Headquarters in West Kowloon. The centre aims at turning abstract concepts of humanity into concrete and realistic actions through a variety of thematic exhibitions and visits, encouraging visitors to cultivate humanity, offering care and taking action for people in need, in response to ever-changing humanitarian challenges. By bringing change and hope to people in distress, we are able to fulfil our mission of protecting human lives, caring for the vulnerable and respecting dignity.
Humanitarian education is a pressing issue that relates to every single human being. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of Red Cross mentioned, “we have entered a new era, and it is not a peaceful one. It is an era of protracted armed conflicts, which add up to a world at war. The causes are complex. The consequences are far-reaching. The humanitarian implications are massive.”
We hope you can join us together and give full support to our humanitarian education work in this new era.
Our Vision
To establish ourselves as a base for humanitarian education by disseminating humanitarian values, promoting a humanitarian perspective among the public, and responding to humanitarian challenges with concrete actions.
Our Mission
To cultivate people’s initiative to heed humanitarian issues, embrace humanitarian values, volunteer in different humanitarian aids through our humanitarian platform, and realise humanity in daily life through our high quality humanitarian education programmes.
Our Values
We believe in the humanitarian values and fundamental principles advocated by the Red Cross Movement; we believe in every individual’s ability to prevent disasters and alleviate human sufferings, enabling people to live with dignity; we believe that, through humanitarian education, we can promote understanding, friendship, cooperation and lasting peace amongst people, and build a network of mutual support for the world.