11 illness while the State of Ecuador prides itself on protecting the rule of law and protecting children, which makes me ask perhaps I’m not a human being, perhaps I’m not a girl or an Ecuadorian, but nobody answers me, while my sad life goes on but nobody takes pity on me. Someday, someone will describe my sad life, since I can’t tell you everything, since it is very drawn out and very sad. Once we had a single loaf of bread somebody gave us, we divided it into three, my mother, brother and myself and we had it with a glass of water from the faucet, that was many times our lunch or at night heating a liter of water and putting some vegetation we found by the wayside in there and serving it to ward off hunger; however many times we went to somebody or some institution asking for help, the simple answer we got was that I should leave because they are afraid, while the State of Ecuador gives bonds and other help to many people who are healthy. However I have not even been given a poverty bond as a reprisal for this claim.45 (…) E. Regarding the Red Cross of Ecuador and the Blood Bank y regulation of the health entities 46. On November 14, 1910, Gen. Ely Alfaro legally acknowledged the institution through Legislative Decree published in the Official Gazette No.1392, in which it states: “Art. 1. It is hereby decreed that the Red Cross of Ecuador, a Charitable Institution of Public Benefit, is hereby granted exemption from the payment of all State or Municipal taxes (…)”46. 47. In August 1922, the first statutes of the Red Cross of Ecuador were promulgated. This contributed to its recognition at the international level by the League of Societies of the Red Cross (now the International Federation of Societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent) in 1923. 47 These statutes establish that: Art. 1.- The bases on which the National Society of the Red Cross of Ecuador is founded are as follows: FIRST. – The Red Cross of Ecuador is constituted by national organs and Provincial, Canton, and Local Councils, in accordance with the resolutions of the International Conference of Geneva of 1864 and with the Principles of the Geneva Convention of 1906. In conformity with the peace mission given to the Institution of the Red Cross, this was founded in the city of Guayaquil on April 22, 1910, its constitution was ratified by an Act of the National Congress of the Republic of Ecuador on October 20, 1910 and published in the Official Gazette No.1392, on November 14 of the same year. The Red Cross of Ecuador was recognized by the Government of Ecuador and by the International Committee of the Red Cross on April 10, 1923, and was accepted as a member of the International Federation of Societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent on June 9, 1923. The Red Cross of Ecuador is recognized by the Government of Ecuador, as a voluntary aid organization, supplementary to the public powers in the humanitarian field, in accordance with the provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and as the sole Red Cross society in Ecuador. SECOND. – The National Society of the Red Cross of Ecuador is governed by its founding law, and by the conventions and international treaties lawfully ratified by Ecuador and by these Statutes. It is a private law, non-profit institution, with its own legal personality. Its legal, judicial and extrajudicial functions, at national level, shall be exercised by the National Annex 3. Letter addressed by TGGL to the IACHR, dated June 4, 2013. See. http://www.cruzroja.org.ec/plantilla_texto.php?id_submenu1=2&id_menu=2 47 See. http://www.cruzroja.org.ec/plantilla_texto.php?id_submenu1=2&id_menu=2 45 46