Handicap International has been supporting disabled people in Dadaab camp since 2007. Because of the severe famine, living conditions are worsening and the needs are dramatically increasing. Here is an overview of our actions on the ground in Dadaab.
“Around 1,300 Somali refugees are arriving, totally exhausted, at the Dadaab camp every day. They have often travelled 300 to 400 km in the heat. Many children with disabilities are carried in wheelbarrows.” Bernard Franck, a Belgian physiotherapist working for Handicap International, is seeing needs grow daily on the border between Kenya and Somalia.
Following an evaluation of the risks posed by mines and unexploded remnants of war in the area, Handicap International has been leading an emergency risk education mission dedicated to these weapons targeted at the populations under threat since early April. The association is now expanding its teams in the field and the area covered by its mission.
More than 400 diplomatic representatives from 81 countries attended the first intersessional meetings of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions from 27-30 June 2011. They joined representatives from UN agencies, the ICRC, and a CMC delegation of 100 campaigners from 40 countries to discuss progress against the ban.
My name is Thoummy Silamphan. I am a CMC campaigner from the Lao PDR and a cluster munition survivor. On behalf of the CMC, I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on the issue of Victim Assistance today, together with my colleague from Lebanon.CMC campaigners from affected countries know that cluster munitions continue to kill and injure in 2011 as they have for decades. Eleven months...
Philippe Pascal has worked on humanitarian missions since 1995. This year, he returned to Pakistan for six months as a project manager in the southern province of Sindh where he set up several projects, including drinking water access schemes in several villages.
Haiti has been hit by a fresh outbreak of cholera, which first affected the island in October 2010. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (ODHA) estimates that “the epidemic has killed dozens of people over the last few weeks”, just at the start of the rainy and cyclone seasons. More than 5,400 people have died since the initial outbreak of the epidemic, according to...
Handicap International teams in Ivory Coast have expanded their activities over the last few weeks into providing care in hospitals, distributing walking aids and supporting the most vulnerable people affected by the crisis. Our emergency response is designed to help those most affected by the political instability and conflict that is ravaging the country.
Released yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank, this report will make a useful contribution, through a practical approach based on field experience, to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Its publication is an occasion for Handicap International to highlight the particular vulnerability of people with...
My name is Raed Mokaled, I am a CMC campaigner from Lebanon and a cluster munition victim, because I am the father of a 5-year-old boy who was killed by a cluster bomb. As my colleague from Laos has mentioned, improving the accessibility and quality of services is a key commitment of the Vientiane Action Plan. In so many affected countries, emergency medical care, physical rehabilitation services...
