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This is an archive article published on December 11, 1998

Workshop on tracing missing persons

CHANDIGARH, Dec 10: quot;On an average 1,000 persons who go abroad, most of them in search of jobs, are found missing every year. We fin...

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CHANDIGARH, Dec 10: quot;On an average 1,000 persons who go abroad, most of them in search of jobs, are found missing every year. We find out and unite them with their families through our network of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.quot;

This was stated by Dr Manoj Mathur, secretary general, Indian Red Cross Society who is here to participate in the three-day workshop on tracing the missing ones starting from tomorrow at Haryana Niwas.

Addressing the delegates after the inauguration of the three-day Workshop at Haryana Raj Bhawan, the Haryana Governor, Mahabir Prasad exhorted the delegates of various Red Cross societies to review all the Red Cross welfare activities across the country and abroad and to implement the best of their activities in our country.

The workshop is being organised jointly by Haryana State Red Cross Society, Indian Red Cross and the Regional International Red Cross Society.

He suggested that the Haryana State Red Cross Society should organise a similar workshop involving all the 19 districts of Haryana so as to review the progress of the Red Cross societies8217; activities carried out by the district Red Cross societies in the state.

Bruce Biber, regional delegate of International Red Cross Society said that there were 175 National Red Cross Societies working towards solving the problem of separation and loss of contact between family members.

K.L. Batra, secretary of Haryana Red Cross highlighted Red Cross activities of the state branch. The workshop will be attended by the delegates from Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, including one delegate from Bangladesh.

 

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