The Commission to Preserve National Monuments, supported by the global U.S Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation with the USA Embassy in BiH, throughout the last two years implemented the project of primary reconstructive reparation of the building of Red Cross Society of BiH in Sarajevo, which amounted to $ 67,000, whereas the Red Cross Society BiH participated with $ 30,579. In early February 2015, a ceremony was organized to mark the successful completion of this important, initial donation, which is to be remembered for turning to the public by the newly appointed US Ambassador to BiH, HE Maureen E. Cormack. Donation from the Special Funds of U.S Ambassadors for Cultural Preservation for the works on primary structural repair prevented complete collapse of this extraordinary building, which has been protected by the state. This supported the expectations that these funds would ensure conditions for implementation of the following phases of rehabilitation. In the meantime, Red Cross Society of Italy provided additional funds for the second phase of the rehabilitation, amounting $ 72,929, which involved works on complete coverage of the roof. By the completion of these works, in January 2016, conditions were met for continuation of the next phase - partial rehabilitation in the interior that should be implemented by the end of this year. During the summer 2015, Cultural Heritage Center, Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State, upon the completion of the international tendering procedure, donated $ 120,000 for the third phase of the project, which was coordinated by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of BiH in cooperation with the USA Embassy in Sarajevo. Therefore, for the reconstruction of the facility, $ 290,508 has been allocated so far. By the completion of the works anticipated by the third phase of the project, conditions should be met for moving Red Cross Society business premises to their own headquarters, wherefrom they would be able to manage upcoming phases of works, which should result in the complete rehabilitation of this national monument. The historical building - the building of Red Cross Society in Sarajevo was designated as the national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2009 by the Decision of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments at the session held from 10 to 16 March 2009. The building the Red Cross Society in Sarajevo was erected as part of a construction of multiple objects of Red Cross Society of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the end of the twenties and thirties of the 20th century. In this period, the building of the Main Committee of the Red Cross of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Belgrade was built (1935), as well as homes in Novi Sad, Užice, Kragujevac, Tetovo, Čačak, Čapljina. The building was built on the basis of the tendering solution from 1928 designed by the architect Helen Baldasara, who worked in Sarajevo in the period between two world wars, in the spirit of Modernism. The peculiarity of this project is that this is the only facility of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which used to have the function of health and educational institutions, and there was also a cinema inside the facility. Therefore, it is possible to speak about its cultural function also. The building has been achieving the continuity of its health and educational function since the construction, when the Red Cross Society moved its premises there, until destruction of the building by shelling in 1992. There were public bathrooms located in the basement, and there was also a kitchen of the Red Cross upstairs. In the second half of the 20th century, the building became an indispensable part of the cultural life of the city, since it housed the cinema "Sutjeska".