Support our work in Darfur
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Responding to the conflict in Darfur has been the largest operation of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the last four years.
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| In a region the size of France, nearly four million people have been affected by the conflict which started in 2003. They include 2.5 million internally displaced people, many of whom fled their homes to live in camps.
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| Since 2004, the Red Cross has helped hundred of thousands of people living in Sudan. The main area of work of the British Red Cross has been in Gereida where a camp has been set up to help people who have lost their homes and livelihoods in Darfur. Our original expectation was to help 12,000 people in need of shelter and healthcare; in just three years this has tragically increased tenfold. The Gereida camp is now one of the largest such camps in the world.
The Red Cross is committed to providing life-saving healthcare, food, shelter and clean water for the people of Gereida and in other remote areas of Darfur. We need to raise £1 million to ensure that this work can continue.
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| Project details
The Red Cross delivers a wide range of relief programmes in response to the differing needs of people in remote and hard to access parts of Darfur. We do not distinguish between displaced people and local populations but respond to the needs of the most vulnerable.
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| We provide food, medicine, shelter, clean water, seeds and tools. We also provide specialist support including nutritional care to hundreds of malnourished children. Sixty-nine trained nutrition monitors search the five kilometre camp to identify children in need of the specialist services. Nutrition support lasts up to three months for a single child, as long-term care is needed for a full recovery. | |
 | | | This is an extremely successful project and thousands of children have been helped in this way.
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| We recognise that people are better able to support themselves if they are able to remain safely in their own villages. Our mobile services help those in remote areas, which are often difficult to access. These include a flying surgical team and mobile veterinarians, who protect the most valuable assets of people struggling to survive. The Red Cross is able to cross conflict lines travelling under our recognised protective emblems without armed escorts. This enables us to reach isolated communities and deliver Red Cross messages to people separated by the conflict.
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 | | | We value the support we receive very highly. The Red Cross has a permanent presence in communities across the world through our sister National Societies.
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| We can therefore provide assurances that our donations are secure. We invite supporters to become as involved in our work as they wish to, so they understand the impact their contribution makes to the lives of the people we help. We want our supporters to feel as much of a sense of ownership and pride in the Red Cross as we do.
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