The Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) is a lead National society in providing quality humanitarian work, was established in 1956. (SRCS) was accepted into the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. (SRCS) a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The SRCS operates across the Sudan with 18 branches, more than 75 units and an active volunteer base of about 35,000.
The mission of (SRCS) is to Provide humanitarian aid services towards building secure and capable urban and rural communities through the transition to resilience, recovery, rehabilitation and development, in compliance with International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Principles and guidelines and in conformity with international human rights, through a sustainable development approach where environment conservation and rationalized use of natural resources are considered top priorities to help guarantee a safe global environment for future generations.
SRCS operates
In West Darfur State health services have been under resourced, qualified staff were scarced to be part of minimizing the mass internal displacement of people. NGOs, UN, and other agencies have made massive efforts to address the health needs of the IDPs and to some extent to the host populations.
According to the National program of the Federal Ministry of Health to reduce the malnutrition diseases especially among under five years, where there were many interventions, studies and surveys to reduce malnutrition diseases.
West Darfur state is prone to emergencies including outbreaks of diseases, flooding and conflicts. WD has one of the highest under-five mortality rates of 91.4 per 1000 live births compared with the national average of 52 per 1000 live births (MICS 2014).
Health services are not well developed anywhere even before the war, and have been deteriorated in the long conflict period, affecting remote rural areas especially in nomad settlement areas.
In this project SRCS with the support of UNICEF will provide health and nutrition services in some of the facilities in El-Geneina, Sirba and Habila locality in collaboration with UNICEF and Ministry of Health at both levels (State and Federal) and the other line ministries.
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