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The latest social task of the Norwegian Red Cross: Prison Visitors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jens Meinich
Jens Meinich*
Affiliation:
Vice Secretary General Norwegian Red Cross
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It was with a feeling of exitement that, one day in February 1959, I complied with the request of the Leader of Education at the National Prison—Botsfengselet—in Oslo to make a speech on the Red Cross, accompanied by a film and followed by a question-hour, in connection with a course in social science for the prisoners.

I started by telling the audience that the Founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, as a young man visited the prison in Geneva, where he read aloud to the prisoners and brought them human contact.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 7 , Issue 74 , May 1967 , pp. 235 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1967

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