ICRC President to start visit to Mozambique, go to Cabo Delgado

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ICRC President to start visit to Mozambique, go to Cabo Delgado

8:06 CAT | 12 Feb 2021

File photo: Sebastien Feval/ AFP

The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC0), Peter Maurer, is making his first official visit to Mozambique from Saturday (13) to Tuesday, at the invitation of President Filipe Nyusi.

The ICRC president will go to Pemba to visit humanitarian projects and meet representatives of the Mozambique Red Cross in the region before travelling to Maputo for a meeting with President Filipe Nyusi.

Also read: Mozambique: President Nyusi holds virtual meeting with the ICRC president

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working in Mozambique for 40 years, providing assistance and protection to people affected by armed violence and natural disasters.

Quel accueil chaleureux d’ Antoine MBAO-BOGO, Président de la Croix-Rouge Centrafricaine et des volontaires ! Je salue votre courage et votre abnégation.

Nous sommes fiers d’être à vos côtés face à cette crise. pic.twitter.com/N27PR4SK9W

— Peter Maurer (@PMaurerICRC) February 10, 2021

The ICRC is an impartial, neutral and independent organisation whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflicts and other situations of violence, as well as to assist them.

The ICRC works closely with the Mozambique Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross to ensure a concerted, efficient and swift response to conflicts and other emergencies.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is the largest humanitarian network in the world.

A brief summary of the ICRC’s activities in Mozambique in 2020

Assistance

Our assistance takes a variety of forms and can include material relief (such as seeds, tools and medicines), repair of water supply and treatment systems or rehabilitation of medical facilities.

Assistance to nearly 32,000 displaced people and local communities in Cabo Delgado in the form of household items, shelter, seeds, agricultural tools, fishing kits and irrigation support.

Rehabilitation of medical infrastructures in the central provinces and Cabo Delgado, including the Covid X Congresso treatment centre in Pemba and four primary health care centres in Cabo Delgado.

Extension of the water system network in Montepuez and supply of hand pumps for water supply in the Ibo Islands in Cabo Delgado.

Support for livelihoods and agricultural training for populations in central provinces affected by Cyclone Idai.
Rehabilitation of two schools in the central provinces.

Promotion of Law

Working closely with the Red Cross of Mozambique and the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), the Comité da Cruz Vermelha (CCV) offered three-day training to 120 police officers of the Republic of Mozambique on preventing sexual violence during Covid-19.

We organised the first Human Rights training for 15 instructors at the Centre for Legal and Judicial Training (CFJJ) in September. These trainings will ensure that humanitarian law is taught as a mandatory module in CFJJ training programs.

We have given Human Rights training to 30 high-level representatives of the judiciary and the office of the Secretary of State for the Province of Niassa, northern Mozambique.

Protection

We provide hygiene material to all 11 provincial prisons in Cabo Delgado to guarantee clean living conditions for more than 1,030 detainees.

We established a telephone service and points of care to meet the humanitarian needs of people who have been displaced by the violence and have fled to Pemba.

We offer dignity kits containing toiletries and travel expenses to help 27 detainees in Cabo Delgado reunite with their families.

During Covid-19, we donated personal protective equipment to the National Directorate of SERNAP for referral to prisons considered a priority.

Cooperation

We trained 140 Red Cross volunteers from four districts of Cabo Delgado in preventive health and hygiene protocols for Covid-19.

We supported the organisation of more than 4,700 public awareness lectures to promote hygiene in four municipalities in Cabo Delgado. We also help disinfect more than 14,800 public transport vehicles, along with the weekly spraying of other public spaces such as stores, schools, government buildings and health centres in Cabo Delgado.

We donated about 400 buckets of soap to four municipalities in the province of Cabo Delgado and Niassa.

Source:

International Committee of the Red Cross Mozambique / Press Release