The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.
SOUTH SUDAN: Six months since the outset of a cholera outbreak in Torit County, the South Sudan Red Cross and the IFRC continue efforts to curb the disease. The Red Cross response is following a dual-pronged approach with three main fronts; ensuring access to safe drinking water, organizing disease prevention education sessions, and promoting hygiene awareness in affected communities with the view of instilling behaviour change. Although much remains to be done, response efforts to date are bearing fruit as cholera cases have started to subside as families begin to adopt new preventative measures they have learned through health and hygiene promotion sessions.
SYRIA: On October 23, the ICRC, working closely with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, delivered urgently needed food and other essential relief items to over 95,000 people living in areas directly affected by fighting in eastern rural Aleppo. The 39-truck convoy transported food and other aid to Red Crescent warehouses and various community distribution points in the opposition-controlled towns of Manbij, Al Bab, Maskaneh, Jarablos and Deir Hafer. Food was delivered for over 95,000 residents, including thousands of displaced people. Over 46,000 people also received mattresses, blankets, cooking utensils, rechargeable flashlights, towels, candles and water buckets. Over 4,000 children received school notebooks, pens and geometry sets.
