GCC Heads of Red Crescent societies, at the end of a meeting on Thursday, recommended adoption of joint guidelines for voluntary work for a two-year mandate. According to KUNA, the chiefs, who met within framework of the 14th meeting of the committee that groups leaders of Gulf Red Crescent societies and associations, also called for hammering out an action plan for the commission (2020-2024). Voluntary guidelines, generally, sets work mechanisms and a host of other issues regulating such relief activity. The leaders of the GCC Red Crescent societies called for organizing, on the occasion of the GCC Red Crescent Society Day, falling on October 23, workshops and educational activities at schools, universities and higher education institutions on promoting voluntary work. They also recommended involving civil societies for spreading such culture.
