Canadian Red Cross

Published purpose

This project aims to increase the survival of mothers, newborns and children by bringing life-saving health services directly to 350,000 people in 609 remote communities in Warrap State. These services are brought to communities using community volunteers, and more complicated cases referred to the nearest primary health care centres. Some project activities include: (i) staffing and equipping four mobile outreach clinics; (ii) training 1,511 community health volunteers in health promotion (breastfeeding, better nutrition, vaccinations, etc.); (iii) providing micronutrients to improve nutrition; (iv) delivering life-saving interventions for malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia to children under five, including distributing 116,000 insecticide-treated anti-malaria bed nets; (v) reducing the incidence of water-borne diseases by building and managing 170 safe drinking water-points and 5,000 household latrines, and; (vi) capacity building of the Warrap Ministry of Health and training of the South Sudan Red Cross to train and supervise volunteers and collaborate with the Ministry of Health. This project contributes to Canada's Maternal, Newborn and Child Health commitment.