Emergency, Health and Sanitation

Relief International meets the immediate needs of victims of natural disasters and civil conflicts worldwide with the provision of food rations, clean water, non-food items, transitional shelter and emergency medical services. Beyond emergency situations, Relief International’s field teams provide long term health and nutrition services to communities in need by operating clinics and training health workers. Relief International also provides water and sanitation programming, providing communities with access to clean water, decreasing the incidence of communicable diseases, and improving quality of life.

Developing and Improving Primary Health Care, Providing Emergency and Nutritional Services in Mabaan County and Upper Nile State
Relief International operates primary and mobile health clinics with a focus on reproductive healthcare. Learn More...

Yemen: Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons
Relief International is providing emergency shelter and increased access to quality health care among IDPs residing inside camps and in host communities. Meeting the immediate needs of the displaced population through shelter and health care, Relief International is working with the Ministry of Health to prevent the spread of disease and raise health and hygiene awareness. Learn More...

Uganda: Domestic Rainwater Harvesting
To contribute to poverty reduction and relieve women and children from the drudgery of fetching water, Relief International is improving access to safe water in the home by harvesting rainwater. Learn More...

Sudan: Emergency Health for Populations in Darfur
Relief International's health interventions in North Darfur focus on emergency health and nutrition care to individuals whose lives have been disrupted by violence and displacement. Relief International currently operates a primary health care clinic in Zam Zam Camp and 6 satellite village-run health facilities across the state. Learn More...

Sudan: Combating Malnutrition in Darfur
Relief International currently operates two therapeutic feeding centers in Zam Zam Camp to provide emergency nutrition support to the most vulnerable populations in the camp via food rations, growth monitoring, and nutrition education for caretakers and suffers of malnutrition. Learn More...

Sri Lanka: Child Protection, Emergency Response
To provide essential child protection services to vulnerable, war-affected youth in Sri Lanka's North. Learn More...

Sri Lanka: Clean-Water Project
To provide access to potable water for war-affected populations in North Sri Lanka. Learn More...

Somalia: Integrated Health Program: Reducing Morbidity and Mortality of Women of Child-bearing Age and Children Under Five
The program aims to increase access to primary health services, including integrated reproductive health, and strengthen Health Information Systems in Mudug. Learn More...

Senegal: Millennium Water and Sanitation Program
The Senegal Millenium Water and Sanitation Program project, also known as USAID-PEPAM project aims to improve sustainable access to WSS and promote better hygiene in targeted rural, small town, and peri-urban areas of Senegal by working in four components. Learn More...

Pakistan: Provision of Targeted Non-Food Items and Rental Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in Hangu, North West Frontier Province
To improve the welfare of IDPs in Hangu via provision of cash assistance and targeted NFI distributions that concurrently benefit host communities. Learn More...

Pakistan: WFPs Food- Assistance for Livelihood Early Recovery Activities in Crises Affected Districts of NWFP
The project aims to provide immediate assistance to returnees and non-displaced population to ensure rapid restoration of livelihoods and enable them to meet food needs through their participation in Food for Work and Food for Training activities. Activities would promote a longer-term self-sufficiency to achieve food and income security. Learn More...

Pakistan: Food-Assistance to Returnee Families of Mohmand Agency
Relief International is providing food baskets to 30,000 returnees of Mohmand Agency on a monthly basis. Through this project Relief International will provide 2000 metric tons of food on a monthly basis for up to 20,000 registered returnees from two humanitarian hubs in the Mohmand Agency (FATA). Learn More...

Nigeria: Household Water Filters for Low-Income Families
To provide the opportunities to address diarrheal disease problems at household level of the rural and semi-rural communities. Learn More...

Niger: Healthy Start Child Survival Program
The goal of the USAID-funded Healthy Start Child Survival Project is to reduce morbidity and mortality rates of mothers and children less than five years of age in the Health District of Konni. Learn More...

Niger: Food for Education
Improve food security, reduce incidence of hunger, and improve literacy and primary education and thereby contribute to more self-reliant, productive societies. Learn More...

Myanmar/Burma: Maternal and Child Health via Rural Outreach
RI's maternal and child health program incorporates strategies to improve maternal and child health services to additional townships that were affected by Cyclone Nargis. Through rural outreach, health promotion and primary health care services funded by UNICEF, RI helps improve access to maternal and child health services in vulnerable villages located in Bogale and Pyapon Townships, in addition to RI's familiar base of Kungyangon and Dedaye. Learn More...

Haiti: Multi-Sectoral Assistance to Earthquake-Affected Populations
Relief International (RI) works to provide rapid and flexible humanitarian assistance to earthquake-affected populations in Haiti by reducing morbidity and mortality through improved access to health care and increased availability of water and sanitation services. Learn More...

Haiti: Emergency and Transitional Shelter
The project will support emergency and transitional shelter for earthquake-affected populations. Learn More...

Ghana: Creating cost-effective solutions to household needs for clean water
The goal of this project is to create a market for inexpensive household water filters in Ghana and Nigeria by demonstrating that they are a cost-effective solution to the water quality problem faced by many low-income consumers in both countries. This project will demonstrate that the CrystalPurâ„¢ water filter, in particular, meets consumer needs and can be distributed profitably by the local private sector. Learn More...

Ghana: Maximizing the Health Impact
Ghana Water and Sanitation (Watsan) Project major goal is to improves access to safe and adequate water supply and basic sanitation infrastructure for schools, clinics and households and promote complementary hygiene practices to maximize the health impact from this improved infrastructure. The project strives to reach this broader goal through the following intermediate objectives. Learn More...

Afghanistan: Community-Based Response to HIV
Support to Strengthen Provincial HIV/AIDS (SPHP) in Nangahar creates a community-based response to HIV and works to prevent the transmission of HIV among high-risk and vulnerable populations. Learn More...