On 5th of December – the İnternational Volunteers Day, that is on the 3rd and 4th of December the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society ( Az.RCS ) supported by the International Commiittee of the Red Cross has opened “Youth Centers” to be used by the volunteers of the Az.RCS in Agjabedi, Agdam and Ter-Ter regions. These “Youth Centers” were organized within the framework of the Youth Committee project.

According to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Azerbaijan Red Crescent and Poland Red Cross in 2008, �Community Based First Aid� program implemented in the Zagatala and Ujar regions has been finished. Baylar Talibov - Secretary General and Shahin Bilandarli � First Aid Coordinator of the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society paid an official visit to Warsaw and Lodz cities of Poland based on the invitation of the Polish Red Cross on 5-9th of December, 2008.

Mankind was face to face with different infectious diseases in the course of time. Now people can treat the diseases which killed millions of people in the ancient times. But there is still a disease that people can not defeat. It is AIDS which is infected by the virus HIV.
The 1st of December is celebrated as a “World struggle day against AIDS” by UNO from 1987 with the aim to struggle against this disease and   to raise people’s awareness in this sphere.
Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society (AzRCS) together with the “Integration of Azerbaijan Youth to the Europe” organization organized an interesting event in the “Roxe Club” in Boulevard on the 30th of November. The main objective of the event is to increase the knowledge of the youth and to give them information on the spending leisure times usefully.

The meeting jointly organized by the representatives of ICRC functioning in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan Red Crescent about the conclusion of the activities implemented by International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement in the direction of mine action in Azerbaijan was held traditionally in “ Aqua Park” relax center situating in Novchani settlement in Baku city on November 11-12 in 2008.
The aims of the meeting were the discussions on the project of “SPA” constructed for children by Azerbaijan Red Crescent in 7 villages with high mine risks , situating close to the  front line from Gazakh, Agstafa, Agdam, Fizuli  Gadabay with the financial support of International Olympic Committee and technical support of ICRC  , holding appreciation of the  project  of “SPA“ constructed in 42 such villages of Republic during 2005-2008 in communities, the level of the activity on gathering information about mine victims according to Agreement  Memorandum signed on December in 2007 between Red Crescent and ANAMA  for mines and meetings about mine activities of Red Cross And ICRC in following years.

A communication training was organized in Budapest, Hungary on 10-12th of November, 2008 by the Europe zone of the International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies.
Head of the Europe zone of International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Societies -Anitta Underlin made a speech in the opening of the training.
Various presentations were made on new management work model, information policy, PR campaigns, information, communication, advocacy strategy.