Our WASH programs target the refugee communities, cholera hotspots and other emergency situations such as landslides, floods and internally displaced persons.
We partner with Red Cross Red Crescent movement partners (IFRC, NLRC, Austrian Red Cross, GRC) to promote Sanitation and hygiene using the Participatory Hygiene and sanitation Transformation (PHAST) approach to increase latrine coverage, increase access to safe water through drilling of boreholes and extension of piped water systems; and waste management.
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.