Annual report

Cameroon
, 
CAR
, 
Chad
, and 
South Sudan
, nearly 300,000 people, 
of which more than 70,000 were children under 
the age of five, were reached with vaccinations.
For WASH, the Expanded Programme of 
Immunization (EPI) project in the 
Democratic 
Republic of Congo
was implemented with the 
support of the IFRC and with funding from USAID. 
The aim was to increase the immunization cover-
age rate to 90 per cent and improve community 
knowledge, skills and practices on immunization. 
The programme also focused on the treatment 
of water for domestic use. As a result, more than 
355,000 cubic metres of water was treated with 
chlorine for household-use.
In 
Ghana
, 14 water supply schemes served 
6,200 households (37,200 people). These sys-
tems also generated income from the sale of 
water for future operation and maintenance 
needs. 
Afghan Red Crescent Society
, together 
with the IFRC, continuously worked with the 
Ministry of Education to establish water points 
and toilets for boys and girls, menstrual hygiene 
management facilities, and handwashing sta-
tions in schools in Afghanistan.
Health care interventions with the IFRC’s sup-
port were developed in a variety of contexts 
across the world, from crises to healthy ageing 
promotion. In 
Venezuela
, through the project 
“Enhancing resilience to food crises in semi-arid 
rural and peri-urban areas”, more than 15,000 
people were reached through nutritional health 
days, distribution of nutritional items, nutritional 
workshops and breastfeeding clubs. In 
Pakistan
, 
the IFRC supported the National Society and its 
Basic Health Units, reaching more than 42,000 
people in the Bannu district.
In 
Syria
, the National Society continued the 
provision of primary health care services to vul-
nerable people, the displaced and people with 
disabilities. At a time of increasing dependency 
on SARC to access health care consultations 
and medicine, health care facilities were sup-
ported by the IFRC, in fixed or mobile facilities, 
reaching more than 87,000 people, including the 
cholera response. Moreover, 8,000 people with 
disabilities living in hard-to-reach areas received 
multidisciplinary health and rehabilitation, 
improving their daily autonomy. In 
Afghanistan
, 
the IFRC supported the installation of 11 mobile 
health teams in Kandahar and Paktika provinces. 
These reached more than 48,000 people with 
primary health and immunization services.
Other cholera outbreaks were supported by the 
IFRC, for example, in 
Nepal
, in the Kathmandu 
valley, through preventive activities to control 
cholera, diarrhea and dengue cases, reaching 
more than 33,000 people.
Training those who help people is one of the 
IFRC’s cornerstones to provide health services 
to vulnerable communities. In 
Nigeria
, the IFRC 
supported the National Society to mobilize and 
train nearly 3,000 volunteers. The volunteers 
increased awareness and house-to-house social 
mobilization for the integrated measles, yellow 
fever and COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in 
three states. With funding from the