Saving the World?

For our semester-long blog project, we have chosen to focus on the work of two international relief organizations, the Red Cross and the World Health Organization.  We think that it will be interesting to contrast the efforts of these two groups because they have similar missions; however, the WHO is coordinated by the United Nations, while the Red Cross is an unaffiliated NGO.  We plan to research and analyze the effectiveness of their humanitarian efforts, and, more relevantly to this class, how they affect international relations.