In 2015 we celebrated 100 years of humanitarian action. Read the stories below about New Zealand Red Cross' peacetime activities.
Our first training courses for first aid began in 1924 after a scholarship from the League of the International Red Cross paid for Sister Jessie Lewis to train as a nurse in England.
Galina Bogatiroff, aged 11 from Russia, was reunited with her family on 16 January 1934 after being separated from her parents since she was a baby. The search for her family took five years.
