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CERF: Funding helps displaced families in Côte d’Ivoire

Posted on 07/05/2012 - 15:22

Denis Bahou and his extended family at an IOM managed camp in Duékoué, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit: Laura Burke/UN CERF/ UNOCHA

Thousands of Ivorians need help rebuilding lives destroyed by post-election violence.

Denis Bahou and his family are among tens of thousands of Ivorians who are still struggling to recover from last year’s post-election violence.

When the...

Haiti: Improved sanitation to combat cholera

Posted on 06/29/2012 - 16:46

The French Red Cross provides water, sanitation and toilets for 11,000 IDPs at the Centre d'Hebergement Provisoire Automica Dahaitsu in Port-au-Prince. Water buckets are lined up early in the morning as children wait until the water is distributed at noon everyday by community leaders in the camp. Credit: MINUSTAH

New projects repair and install latrines, but cholera concerns...

CERF: Tackling the nutrition crisis in Burundi

Posted on 06/20/2012 - 10:17

2012: Two-year-old Arcade Maniragarura plays with his mother, Domitile Nahimana, during a cooking session at the UNICEF-supported Positive Deviance site in the commune of Matongo, Kayanza province, northern Burundi. Credit: UNICEF Burundi/Pawel Krzysiek

Emergency fund helps UNICEF save children’s lives and improve the health-care system.

Two-year-old Arcade Maniragarura...

The Philippines: Displaced families struggle to rebuild lives

Posted on 06/08/2012 - 10:22

Kaligan with some of her children outside their home in Damablak, Maguindanao. Credit: OCHA

Thousands of people remain affected by a protracted crisis in disaster-prone Mindanao.

Kaligan lives with her husband and eight children in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Maguindanao, which literally means ‘people of the flood plains,’ is prone...

CERF: Fighting cholera in the Republic of Congo

Posted on 05/29/2012 - 11:59

Dimitri Okoulokami folds the shirt of his nephew who died of cholera, Isle M'bamou, Republic of the Congo. Credit: CERF/Guy Hubbard

Annual Report highlights Central Emergency Response Fund’s work to support urgent, life-saving projects.

The diarrhoea and vomiting started before dawn. By 8 am, 12 year old Steward Okoulokami was weak and losing weight. His panicked father...