Anna Cerutti - Visiting Guest Lecturer

9. Mai 2018

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Anna Cerutti, Visiting Guest Lecturer, will deliver a lecture: "Managing Humanitarian Emergencies" on Monday 28.05.2018 from 10:15am - 12:45pm at VMP9 room S28. 

Anna Cerutti is Operations Manager West Nile International Federation of the  Red Cross and will give us interesting insights  into the refugee crisis.

Since 2016 the South Sudan refugee emergency in Uganda dramatically peaked. By the end of 2016 Uganda hosts approximately 625000 refugees from South Sudan, and there is no sign of change. As of March 2017, 6000-7000 refugees arrived daily at the reception centers in Northern Uganda.

Originally the capacity was designed to deal with 1000 refugees per day, and capacity is actually overstretched. People arriving suffer from malnutrition, diseases (like malaria) and post-traumatic stress syndromes, with 86% of all refugees being women and children. The Ugandan Government grants all refugees a small plot of land (50x50m per household), the right to work and start a business and free movement within the country from the first day of arrival.