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Darfur: meeting basic needs and providing vital health care
28-01-2008 Photo gallery
The ICRC is the only humanitarian organization with a large-scale operation in Gereida camp in South Darfur, where it continues to provide for the basic needs of over 120,000 displaced people. This gallery presents the latest in a series of images illustrating the organization's activities throughout Darfur, providing for basic needs, health services, war wounded surgery, water and agricultural support.
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The ICRC is the only humanitarian organization with a large-scale operation in Gereida camp in South Darfur, where it continues to provide for the basic needs of over 120,000 displaced people. This gallery presents the latest in a series of images illustrating the organization's activities throughout Darfur, providing for basic needs, health services, war wounded surgery, water and agricultural support.
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The ICRC promotes knowledge of the law and urges all those who carry a weapon to respect it.
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During armed conflicts such as the one in Darfur, women and children are particularly at risk.
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The ICRC supports three orthopaedic centres in Sudan, in Khartoum, Nyala and Juba with technical guidance, materials, prostheses, orthoses and training.
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The ICRC, which operates the centre jointly with the British and Australian Red Cross Societies, works to detect malnutrition and provides families with children with education on hygiene, health and water to prevent it.
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The ICRC is the only humanitarian organization with a large-scale operation and a large international staff in the camp in South Darfur, where it continues to provide for the basic needs of displaced people.
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Every month, the ICRC distributes food to over 120,000 displaced people in the camp, and provides drinking water and health care services.
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The ICRC monitors violations of international humanitarian law against civilians and other non-combatants. It raises such cases in the course of its confidential dialogue with all sides.
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The ICRC helps residents and displaced people in remote rural areas to maintain or restore their livelihoods.
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The ICRC and the SRCS help separated families to keep in touch through the distribution of Red Cross Messages. Every year, the ICRC collects and distributes thousands of messages between family members separated by war in Sudan and neighbouring Chad.
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In some rural areas, farmers who remain in their villages find it difficult to access their land. As a consequence, vulnerable families have problems generating sufficient income to cover their basic needs.
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The ICRC immunizes the animals of nomadic communities, for whom livestock represents both wealth and security. It also trains community animal health workers and provides them with veterinary kits so they can set up their own small clinics.
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If the child needs further treatment, he will be referred to the nutritional feeding centre in the camp. Conducting weekly home visits by the monitors ensures support for the mother and progression of the child's health.
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The ICRC repairs, maintains or upgrades rural water points and urban networks throughout Darfur, providing drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people.
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The team is deployed following armed clashes, and treats weapon-wounded patients in places where no other care is available.
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