Following heavy rains and flash floods in Sudan, tens of thousands of homes, boreholes and agricultural fields have been destroyed or damaged over the past months. 80,000 families need humanitarian assistance.
A new online survey conducted by the ICRC found that 9 out of 10 young people from Gaza who took the survey believe their lives are abnormal and 40% reported having no hope of finding a job opportunity in the next 15 years.
Lockers with tiny schoolbags and changes of shoes are blown open. Piles of rubble and debris obscure the cartoon figures on the brightly painted walls. Notebooks and schoolbooks lie on the ground, pages fluttering in the wind.
In Somalia, 150,000 families in conflict-affected areas have received life-saving cash as they face drought and inflation
Millions of Kenyans do not have enough to eat amid the worsening drought, and a growing number of people have been losing their livelihoods to extreme weather.
Statement by Christine Cipolla, ICRC’s regional director for Asia and the Pacific
Over 3,000 persons with disability have benefited from physical rehabilitation services in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Nigeria, thanks to the first humanitarian impact bond (HIB).
Eighty-three children in the DRC, aged five to 19 years old, have at last been reunited with their families, sometimes after years of waiting.
Between 29th June and 1st July 2022, teams from the ICRC supported 10 patients with medical needs and their caretakers from Odesa and Dnipro. The patients, originally from the city of Mykolaiv as well as the Donetsk region, had been unable to seek medical care on their own.
Eight years into the armed conflict in Yemen, violence, economic hardship and deteriorating health services and health infrastructure increasingly keep women and girls from being able to access the essential healthcare they need. As funding shortages force humanitarian organizations to scale down aid, their predicament will only increase.
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