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Originally Posted by Tomkat
Horn asked Dante if developing countries would prosper in the long term WITHOUT organisations like the Red Cross (which obviously included all the Red Crescent areas etc etc etc).
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The point was about
Europeans giving assistance to Africa. Horn said, "what, even like the red cross". I was originally going to post "The Red Cross isn't a European organisation." but I thought that would be doing a disservice to (for instance) the British Red Cross, which obviously is a European organisation. Instead, it's much more accurate to say that the Red Cross is not a single organisation - there are lots of different of branches around the world. The wiki refers to it as a movement, which seems a more sensible definition. But if you wish to call it a single organisation, then fine - but then horns question still doesn't make much sense.
To put in simple terms for you : The Red Cross has a valuable role to play in Africa. However, in the long term, this should be a Red Cross* staffed and run by Africans. So horn's question cannot be easily answered by a "yes" or "no" - because it seems to imply there is a single Red Cross which is entirely run by Europeans. Which is not quite the case.
* I use the term Cross here for brevity, but it applies to Red Crescent/Diamond/whatever.