The Uganda Flood Response: Part 1

This blog post is written by Stephen Hagerich, a British Red Cross worker who has been working in Uganda. The American Red Cross is building their support for cash in emergencies and are developing some Emergency Response Unit roster members to become specialists and work on programs alongside other Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies. The Uganda Red Cross is continuing their response to flooding and landslides and decided to use cash grants to those affected. The role was to provide support to the Uganda Red Cross and document the process to share the learning for future programmes in other locations. Hiking through the fields We arrived in Nairobi for meetings with Red Cross soceities that work in East Africa before beginning the process of documenting why and how the Red Cross is using cash assistance during emergencies. In other words, to discuss how we can help people affected by a disaster by directly providing them with money in addition to other relief items such as tarps, tents and water containers. From Nairobi, we headed to Kampala, Uganda, straight to the Uganda Red Cross headquarters. It was still early morning but the roads were already bustling so we walked on the deep red coloured dirt path lined with street vendors. When we arrived, we met with a number of different groups, still quite busy with managing the ongoing response to the April and May flooding. It was only our second day but it was already 6:30pm and we still had lots to do. It would be a long nig...
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