Funded by Netherlands Red Cross, the program uses a health promotion approach, creating awareness and mobilizing communities to adopt desirable health behavior in antenatal and post-natal services including immunization, nutrition, diarrheal diseases and prevention of communicable diseases such as malaria, HIV and TB among the target population in Rhino Camp refugee settlement and host communities in Kamu Kamu.
In addition, URCS also provides health commodities such as mama kits, mosquito nets and condoms to support Reproductive Health in the communities in which we operate.
Uganda Red Cross Society is a membership humanitarian organization incorporated in 1964, by an enactment of the Red Cross Act, Cap 57 of the laws of Uganda. URCS became a member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 1965.