Health and wellbeing
4 sectors
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Health
Mobile clinics bring medicines and basic health checks to displaced communities, and expectant mothers receive clean delivery and newborn kits. Transport and hospital costs are paid for emergency referrals, including births and sick children under five.
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Nutrition
Health workers screen young children for malnutrition with arm-circumference (MUAC) checks and refer those who need treatment. Children and pregnant women receive vitamins, nutritional supplements and deworming.
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Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)
Field staff and trained community focal points offer psychosocial support and family counselling to people under severe stress, and refer those who need specialist care.
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Psychological first aid (PFA)
Psychological first aid offers humane, supportive and practical assistance to people experiencing distress after a crisis.