Uplifting refugee communities: meet the work of Rescue Wing International
Rescue Wing is a non-profit organization that operates in Kakuma Refugees Camp for the purposes of helping and assisting the affected refugees and host communities living in the camp. Rescue Wing provides different activities in two different departments: livelihood and psychosocial support. Lack of enough support and assistance to the refugees and host community are definitely the main causes for the refugees to be traumatized and stressed on their issues and circumstances. Rescue Wing has come up with these plans to help, serve and assist refugees and host communities to overcome these challenges.
WASH REPORTS
Through the different WASH- WATER, Sanitation and Hygiene — awareness activities held in Kakuma refugees camp this week, most of the beneficiaries in the camp claimed on lack of good hygiene and sanitation mechanisms, lack of enough hygiene materials and enough good water in the camp brings lot of challenges to the population living in the camp, lack of toilets and toilet materials such as soaps, tissue papers, tip tap constructions are likely the main problems that the refugees are facing in the camp. The spread of waterborne diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and water related diseases such as malaria are due to the lack of good hygiene and sanitation in the camp. The beneficiaries are requested to be given some materials to maintain hygiene and sanitation protocols.
The awareness initiative had 23 community members while all the participants were female from different nationalities, 15 were Sudan while 7 were South Sudanese and 1 Congolese. The awareness on WASH to beneficiaries was held in k3 z2 b4 and k1 z1 b12 to help and assist refugees on how to maintain good hygiene and sanitation to the societies.
Challenges
Due to the difficulties and hardship of the situation in the camp, the beneficiaries are not even able to afford some wash hygiene and sanitation facilities to prevent the spread of waterborne and water related diseases, therefore refugees are requesting to be provided with materials to prevent the spread of diseases.
● Lack of enough clean water
● Lack of hygiene and sanitation materials
● Lack of soaps
● Lack of tissue papers
●Lack of mosquito nets to prevent the spread of malaria
● Lack of enough toilets to the people in the community ● Tip tap construction is a major problem ● Lack of environmental cleaning.
COUNSELLING
This week, our facilitators were able to do some counselling sessions with 16 community members where men were 8 while female were 8 during the session held k3 z1 b4.
GENDER CLUB
Rescue Wing is fighting against any kind of violence to women and young girls in the camp who are undergoing various kinds of violence within the camp. For this week on our gender club session, a facilitator was able to attend 1 beneficiary from Congolese at the community level and discussed with her on some community problems. The beneficiary said they need gender equality in the community, good caring, good leaders to support them as young girls so that they can have a great future.
