I lived in Geneva for most of the 1990s but arriving by plane on a clear spring day has never lost its enchantment.First stop, the International Committee of the Red Cross, founded in 1863 by a Swiss businessman who accidentally bore witness to the gruesome battle of Solferino. Dunant stayed behind to organize non-partisan help to the wounded.
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