Burkina Faso
The Red Cross is helping people in Burkina Faso through extreme weather and food insecurity.
What is happening in Burkina Faso?
Most people rely on farming and mining to make a living, but droughts and floods are damaging crops and income. Farmers are trying to adapt, but it’s difficult to do so without support.
- 6.3 million people required humanitarian aid in 2024
- Over 2 million people have been displaced by climate and conflict
- More than 40% of the population lives below the national poverty line
The British Red Cross has worked with the Burkinabé Red Cross for years to improve cash support systems and monitor food needs. The Burkinabé Red Cross has some strong community-based systems in place.
Our work in the Sahel region
The Sahel Integrated Programme for Climate Resilience and Migration supports the Red Cross and Red Crescent movements in Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad. These countries are facing the combined pressures of climate change, displacement and poverty.
The programme is flexible. When a cash ban was introduced in Burkina Faso, we adapted quickly to keep helping people. This flexibility means we can respond to challenges without stopping our work.
We are working with external programmes to make sure our help supports women and is built for a changing climate. The Burkinabé Red Cross has already a national-level agreements with mobile phone networks to help services like hotlines reach more people.
Disaster Fund
A donation to our Disaster Fund will help us respond to disasters in the UK and around the world, including armed conflict, wildfires, flooding and other natural disasters
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Humanitarian aid in the Sahel
The Red Cross is helping people in countries across the Sahel through poverty, hunger, drought and other impacts of climate change.
The climate crisis
In the UK and around the world, the Red Cross is united to support people affected by climate change.