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FACTBOX-NGOs respond to Sudan’s Darfur crisis
Source: AlertNet
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A Sudanese man shows the stump of his leg, blown off during a bombing raid, at an MSF hospital in Tine, Chad, in January 2004.
Photo by ANTONY NJUGUNA
Photo by ANTONY NJUGUNA
*Joint appeal to focus on return internally displaced and refugees to their homes, mainly in south and west Darfur.
*Relief efforts focused on food security and nutrition in eastern Chad.
*Providing food, medicine, blankets and sheeting for 45,000 refugees and IDPs in the Mukjar refugee camp in Darfur.
*Supporting farmers’groups in Chad and planning support for Sudanese refugees.
*Providing airlifts for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and NGOs in Chad.
*Raising funds to rehabilitate water sources, construct sanitation facilities and promote health and hygiene campaigns.
*Providing medicine and hospital supplies for refugees in Bahai and Cariari on the border between Chad and Sudan.
*Pledging $100,000 to International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) appeal and providing staff at IFRC refugee camp in Chad.
*CAFOD partners has flown food, tents and plastic sheeting for Nyala in southern Darfur. Meanwhile, CAFOD are delivering non-food items to 20,000 people in Darfur.
*Providing food, water, sanitation and health assistance to internally displaced people throughout Darfur and in three camps in Chad.
*Providing logistics and managing distribution of non-food items across the three Darfur states. Distributing food from the U.N. World Food Programme to camps in Kass, on the border of West and South Darfur.
*Launched a $485,500 appeal for aid and continues assisting Sudanese refugees in Chad. Repairing basic infrastructure such as roads and bridges.
*Helping manage refugee camps in Farchana and Kounoungo. Also heading a transit centre at Touloum for refugees transferred from volatile border areas.
*Managing five camps for displaced people in and around Darfur's Geneina area. Distributing basic non-food items such as blankets, sleeping mats, mosquito nets and shelter materials.
* Providing humanitarian assistance to over 150,000 displaced people.
* Launched an appeal on July 20 with the support of all major UK-based television and radio stations to raise money for people fleeing violence in Sudan and eastern Chad. It will provide shelter, clean water, and food, as well as basic items including water buckets, blankets, and soap.
* Providing shelter materials and operating supplementary feeding programmes at seven sites, including Kutum and North Darfur. Managing three primary healthcare clinics and one mobile clinic covering four locations. Assessing needs in South Darfur.
*Providing medical help and clean water and sanitation in one of its biggest operations in the world.
* A team will look at the possible rehabilitation of a hospital in Bahai, serving refugees, and the provision of emergency water purification facilities.
*Preparing to manage health care and nutrition programmes for 18,000 to 25,000 people in three camps, including immunisations for children.
*Focusing on water and sanitation, primary health-care needs, children and services for women and children vulnerable to sexual violence in Darfur and eastern Chad, and will manage a new transit camp for 25,000 refugees in Chad.
* Has established and is managing two Refugee Camps for 18,000 Sudanese refugees in the South-Eastern Chad
* Providing food and shelter and managing the Al Riyadh camp near Al Geneina, which holds over 8,000 people. The team has begun work on improving housing and sanitation in camps.
*Offering assistance to 30,000 refugees who have fled the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Work includes the provision of water and sanitation, psychosocial support, HIV/AIDS programs, and abuse prevention programs in partnership with Norwegian Church Aid in Sudan and the ACT alliance.
*Is sending emergency health kits and a medical assessment team to measure the needs and prepare further medical help for the refugees in the Darfur region.
*Health care support, rehabilitation and essential drugs. Has tripled its current programmes to meet mushrooming needs of internally displaced people.
*Providing medical, food and water and sanitation assistance to almost 250,000 displaced people. Vaccinating children against measles.
*Constructing latrines in the Zalingei camps, as well as conducting health education campaigns in an effort to prevent malaria.
*Merlin will assess health related needs in the region, to determine how it can best contribute to the current relief effort.
*Collecting and analysing information on internal displacement in Darfur and other regions of Sudan.
*Distributing plastic sheeting for shelter, jerry cans and blankets, as well as food for more than 100,000 IDPs.
Digging 2,000 latrines, providing health educaton for 20,000 children, and running nutrition programmes with pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and children under five.
*Delivering relief to scores of Sudanese refugees in Chad.
*Appealing for $55,800,000 for emergency assistance to Sudanese refugees from Darfur.
*Providing water equipment, plastic sheeting, kitchen-sets and other supplies for up to 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Abeche on the eastern border of Chad.
*Aims to distribute 2,800 metric tonnes of food aid to 16,500 people over next the six months. Currently distributing relief items in southern Darfur and the Bahai region of eastern Chad. Distribution of water tanks to drought-afflicted villages. Water will be purchased from the local waterboard for distribution.
