This project will build special latrines for people living with disability inside Kule refugee camp, a home to over 40,000 refugees, as well as offer them with life skills such as sewing and beading, through supporting them with sewing machines. International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has offered 6,000 menstrual hygiene kits to be distributed during intervention.
COVID-19 has drastically affected economies; particularly in South Sudan whereby according to UNHCR, there is 2.2 million refugees. The need to access resources in an environment of sharp economic downturns could open women and girls to sexual exploitation and abuse as alternative ways to make ends meet as well as exchange of girls for bride wealth. These vices will open them up to the risk of contracting not only COVID-19 but other diseases that hospitals will have limited capacity to manage.
We shall work with South Sudanese refugees (women,girls,people living with disability) to create messaging that seeks to progressively address some of the gender related impacts of the spread of the disease, such as increased domestic responsibility, lack of access to livelihoods, exclusion of women and people living with disability from decision making processes around responses to covid-19.
Use of small grants mechanisms where CBOs and communities are mobilized to work together to make improvements in their environment related to, for example, water and sanitation. Once work has been completed a small grant will be awarded, an infrastructure project that correlates to the COVID-19 response, but benefits the whole community, such as the rehabilitation of primary healthcare facilities, or interventions related to access to water.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
