Aid workers

We deployed our first official delegates in 1937 to the second Sino-Japanese War. The trip was funded by the Far East Relief Fund, which was jointly administered with the Order of St John. The fund raised more than £9,000 ($898,127.34, 2014 inflation).

New Zealand Red Cross' delegate programme formally began in October 1960 when we sent Barbara Tomlinson, a physiotherapist, to Morocco.