Choose the correct answer: (25) ______

Read the passage and fill in each blank with a suitable word

The Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency with national affiliates in almost every country in the world. The Red Cross movement began with the founding of the International Committee for the Relief of (25) ______ Wounded in 1863 (now the International Committee of the Red Cross); it was (26) ______ to care for victims of battle (27) ______ wartime, but later national Red Cross societies were created to aid in the prevention and relief of human suffering generally. Its peacetime activities include first aid, accident prevention, water (28) ______, training of nurses' aids, maintenance of maternal and child welfare centers and medical clinics, blood banks, and numerous (29) ______ services. The Red Cross is the name used in countries under nominally Christian sponsorship; the Red Crescent (adopted on the insistence of the Ottoman Empire in 1906) is the name used in Muslim countries.

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