CURRENT PROGRAMMES
- Funding: ECHO, UN agencies
DAH (Délégation à l’action humanitaire, French Foreign Affairs Ministry)
- Global budget: €650 thousand + contributions in kind
- Duration: 11 months (November 2007 to October 2008)
The programme includes:
- Rehabilitation of 12 wells equipped with hand-operated pumps
- Construction or reconstruction of 20 wells featuring protection against surface pollution
- Construction of at least 400 family latrines
- Hygiene awareness activities promoting good hygiene practices and appropriate use of water.
In parallel, Triangle runs food safety activities (distribution of food stuffs and agricultural inputs).
Traditional well
2/ Emergency assistance to victims of the conflict – Vakaga region, Central African Republic
Sorting groundnuts Takamala
3/ Emergency relief for refugees from Darfur in the north eastern town of Sam-Ouandjia, Prefecture of Haute-Kotto, Central African Republic
- Funding: ERF (Emergency Response Fund, United Nations )
UNCHR (United Nations Refugee Agency)
- Global Budget : €450 thousand + donations in kind
- Duration: 8 months (June 2007 to December 2008)
Refugees from Darfur in Sam-Ouandjia,
In partnership with the UN agencies, emergency response has been organized. It includes:
- Distribution of shelter materials, non-food stuffs, jerry cans and water purification sets,
- Distribution of food from the WFP (World Food Programme) and
vitamin-rich biscuits,
- Initial organization of the refugee camp to improve overall management.
In parallel, to complete the current relief plan, implementation of a water network and a schooling system is under discussion, in particular with UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund). As from next September, the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) plans to support the second phase of this response.
A makeshift shelter
A community information meeting –
Sam-Ouandjia
After repeated attacks on Dafak, in southern Darfur, over 3000 people, mainly women and children, have fled to Sam-Ouandjia, a town located some 50 kilometres away from the border with Sudan.
Distribution of food supplies
Refugees await their turn during food distribution
An aid convoy arrives in Sam-Ouandija
1/ Restore Essential Services & Revitalize the Social Fabric of Vakaga Prefecture
- Funding: EuropeAid, plus Co-funder to identify
- Global budget: €1,650,000
- Durée: 32 months (November 2008 – July 2011).
After performing emergency relief, Triangle G H is now launching a programme aimed at sustainable improvement of the living conditions for the people of Vakaga, particularly in terms of water and education.
The project’s objectives are:
- Contribute to providing access to primary education for all children,
- Contribute to reducing the percentage of the population that does not have a steady supply of drinking water,
- Contribute to making durable the services that the project has implemented.
More specifically, we plan the following actions:
- Construction or reconstruction of 25 school buildings,
- Training of teachers (civil servants or « parent-teachers »),
- Formalisation and establishment of Village Pupils’ Parents Associations,
- Creation of 10 new potable water points (wells),
- Training of maintenance agents, and guidance during their maintenance jobs and/or rehabilitation of existing water points,
- Formalisation and establishment of Village Water Management Committees,
- Encourage the administration to be actively present and foster networks between the administration’s representatives and village associations.
Hence, the project combines work to improve the people’s situation in terms of available infrastructures, with efforts at organisational and institutional level; this last aspect features, as well as close cooperation with competent ministries, the participation of UNICEF.
Water point – Manou – CAR
Photo: Olivier Herrmann/TGH
Rehabilitation of a well
Birao – CAR
Photo: Olivier Herrmann/TGH
Destroyed school - Boromata – CAR
School after rehabilitation - Birao – CAR Photo: Olivier Herrmann/TGH
Boy repairing his school bench
Vakaga – CAR
Photo: Olivier Herrmann/TGH
Present in Vakaga since March 2007 with an Emergency Response programme, Triangle has been able to identify specific needs and ways to respond. This new programme aims to improve people’s access to water and the sanitary conditions in very remote areas of Vakaga (Gordil, Sikikédé, Boromata and Tiroungoulou regions).
