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Refugee Support
Contributed by Caroline Lamb (CEO of CRESS)
C
aroline chose to found
and run CRESS with the
South Sudanese she had
met on her visit in 2009,
rather than work through
intermediaries. Together they have
been able to deliver prac琀椀cal and
innova琀椀ve agricultural, educa琀椀onal, 昀椀nancial and medical projects
with an enviable degree of speed,
cost-e昀昀ec琀椀veness and local support.
In 2017 civil war broke out in
South Sudan and most aid agencies withdrew. Thousands of South
Sudanese 昀氀ed into Uganda. Caroline redoubled her UK fundraising
and helped plan the evacua琀椀on
of the South Sudanese sta昀昀 and
community to the refugee camps
of Northern Uganda, where they
started all over again.
Now based in Arua, part of CRESS’s
holis琀椀c approach is to o昀昀er primary healthcare, maternity services
and Children’s Accelerated Trauma
Therapy (CATT) to refugees and
locals living in the Refugee Se琀琀lements in northern Uganda.
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