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IFRC Global Migration and Displacement Newsletter 
FEBRUARY 2022


Dear colleagues,  

Welcome to the February issue of the IFRC Global Migration and Displacement Newsletter! This issue highlights Red Cross and Red Crescent migration and displacement activities in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Moldova, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Lithuania, the Mediterranean sea, the UK, Luxembourg, Turkey, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, the Gambia, Ethiopia, Chad, Honduras, Panama, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh. 

We hope you find the information useful, and as always, please feel free to be in touch with any migration and displacement related queries or comments about the Newsletter. Please also feel free to share this Newsletter with your colleagues, who can subscribe here. 

Ezekiel Simperingham, IFRC Migration and Displacement Global Lead
ezekiel.simperingham@ifrc.org
GLOBAL
The new IFRC Humanitarian Service Point (HSP) digital toolkit
The new UN Migration Network publication highlights Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies promising practices in the provision of essential services to migrants
Campaign: #ClimateChangedMe, and you, and all the people who have been forced to flee their homes
EUROPE

Red Cross teams in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Moldova, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic and Lithuania, together with IFRC and ICRC are mobilized supporting people affected and fleeing the conflict

Ocean Viking rescues 247 people within 48 hours from Mediterranean Sea 
Learn more about the IFRC response and needs  & Watch "Saving lives at sea"

New report: “We want to be strong, but we don’t have the chance: women’s experiences of seeking asylum in the UK”  – British RC and the VOICES Network
Healing by doing: Promoting mental health among refugees in Luxembourg

#PowerToBe campaign launches to help shift perceptions of refugees
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
700 000 CHF released by IFRC to support Syrian Red Crescent providing relief to 50,000 IDPs, including health, psychosocial, food, water and shelter services
IFRC President Francesco Rocca visiting Sahrawi refugees camp in Algeria
AFRICA
Camp life. The Sudanese Red Crescent Society providing support to refugees from Ethiopia
100,000 CHF released by IFRC (DREF) to support the Red Cross Society of Gambia providing assistance to 2,400 IDPs in the Western region of the country
Responding to the needs of migrants along the route: Red Cross Humanitarian Service Points in West Africa 
IFRC and Chad Red Cross conducting a needs assessments as part of the IFRC DREF (200,000 CHF) to support providing assistance to 38,000 refugees from Cameroon
Ethiopia Red Cross Society distributing dignity kits to IDPs with support from Danish Red Cross, Netherlands Red Cross and financial support from ECHO
THE AMERICAS
Honduran Red Cross providing humanitarian assistance, personal protection equipment, hygiene kits and water to in-transit migrants, through the Monarch Butterfly Programme
Joint visit in Darién area - IFRC Americas Regional Director, Panama Red Cross, UNICEF and the EU Delegation of Panama -  to strengthen the response to the increasing humanitarian needs of migrants
ASIA PACIFIC

Thai Red Cross vaccinating refugees who not had access to COVID-19 vaccine 

Food, water and relief items provided by Myanmar Red Cross volunteers to displaced people due to the ongoing conflict in the country

"We need each other to stay alive" - Lifesaving volunteers battle fires and cyclones in Bangladesh Cox's Bazar camps 
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