The Red Cross is an inter national organization, which cares for people who are in need of help. A man in a Paris 【B1】 who needs blood, a woman in Mexico who was 【B2】 in an accident, and 【B3】 in India that lost their 【B4】 in a storm may all be 【B5】 by the Red Cross. The Red Cross 【B6】 in almost every country a round the 【B7】 . The world Red Cross organizations are sometimes 【B8】 the Sun or the Red Lion. All of these organizations 【B9】 a common aim of 【B10】 to help people in need. The idea of 【B11】 an organization to help the sick and wounded during a war was 【B12】 by Joan Dunant. In 1859, he 【B13】 how people were 【B14】 on a battlefield in Italy. He wanted to help all the wounded people 【B15】 which side they were fighting for. The most important 【B16】 of his work was an international treaty (条约). It 【B17】 prisoners of war, the sick and wounded, and other 【B18】 during a war. The American Red Cross was 【B19】 by Lara Barton in 1881. today the Cross in the United States provides a number of 【B20】 for the public. 【B1】