The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
HAITI: After many months of working with the community in an area of Port-au-Prince, the Red Cross has handed five families the keys to their new homes. The five houses are the first stage of providing permanent housing solutions to the most vulnerable families living in this part of Delmas 19 as part the British Red Cross earthquake recovery programme to regenerate the area. In addition to housing solutions, the Red Cross is also working to address some of the income and the sanitation issues in the area through the provision of cash grants and infrastructure reconstruction, including the neighbourhood’s main drainage canal.
ERITREA: Increasingly battered by the effects of climate change, Eritreans are struggling with dwindling water resources, soil erosion, and at times food insecurity. The Red Cross Society of Eritrea has in recent years increased its community-based activities significantly to help bridge this gap. It implements a portfolio of activities serving vulnerable rural communities with the overall goal of strengthening community resilience and working in partnership with government at national and district level.
LIBYA: With support from the Libyan Red Crescent, the ICRC has begun a maritime transfer of people separated from their families by the conflict in Libya. The ICRC has been working for four months to reunite or restore contact between family members separated as a result of the conflict. So far, it has organized more than 13,600 satellite telephone calls and delivered more than 640 "safe and well" messages, both within Libya and abroad.
GLOSSARY:
ICRC = International Committee of the Red Cross
IFRC = International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies