Belarus Red Cross

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Belarusian Red Cross

Беларускі Чырвоны Крыж Белорусский Красный Крест
!Уваход у БТЧК 2019
Formation	1967
Legal status	in operate, IFRC membership suspended
Purpose	Humanitarian aid
Headquarters	Minsk, Belarus
Region	Belarus
Secretary General	Dzmitry Shautsou
Chairman	Dmitry Cherednichenko
Parent organization	International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Staff	366 (2016)[1]
Volunteers	22,459 (2016) [1]
Website	redcross.by

The Belarusian Red Cross Society (Belarusian: Беларускае Таварыства Чырвонага Крыжа, romanized: Bielaruskaje Tavarystva Čyrvonaha Kryža; Russian: Белорусское Общество Красного Креста, romanized: Belorusskoye Obshchestvo Krasnogo Kresta) is a Belarusian humanitarian organization and a suspended^[2] member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Its purpose is to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever and whenever it occurs, voluntarily and without discrimination.

Though first operating in the territory of what is now Belarus in 1872 as the Minsk local branch of the Russian Red Cross, the organization was officially founded in 1967. Within Belarus, it currently operates 166 regional and local branches.^[3][4]