RedR Australia
Ahead of a crisis RedR Australia trains people interested in assisting after major disasters. Qualified and experienced personnel are prepared for some of the challenges they may face in the field.
When disaster strikes RedR Australia is on permanent standby. UN relief agencies and NGOs request people with particular skills and RedR Australia nominates personnel from our Standby Register.
Where? Right now Standby Register members are assisting humanitatian operations in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Syria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Somalia, Liberia, Fiji, Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Sudan.
Some welcome rains have come to parts of the Horn of Africa. In coming weeks pasture will commence to grow, but livestock numbers will take months (or years) to re-build. Crops for food will take several months to mature, assuming sound growing conditions.
Some areas will be fortunate; others less so. And conflict remains, irrespective of easing of drought.
UN agency programmes around provision of shelter, food, health, water, sanitation and protection. And RedR Australia currently has 12 deployments of capable professionals supporting those UN programmes.
We are increasingly concerned by looming food shortage and malnutrition in Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Cameroun, Mauritania and Senegal. The Sahel region of Africa has 5 to 7 million people at high risk. We expect to place technical specialists in the field shortly.
RedR Australia relieves suffering in disasters by:
- maintaining a Register of highly skilled personnel for United Nations agencies and other aid agencies to call on for short-term emergency and disaster relief work
- providing humanitarian training to professionals and technical experts who wish to participate in emergency humanitarian work and aid workers wishing to enhance their skills.
