More women received cash grants for small businesses in Nigeria’s camps for the displaced, where they often arrived alone with small children and without any means of survival.
Having spent twelve years in the field with the ICRC in different conflicts on different continents, I am used to seeing more women among the people the organisation helps.
They spoke about how hard it was to adapt to life in a city, where everything costs money, you hardly know your neighbours, and there is nobody to ask for help.įive women and one man. Many of them came from the nearby islands in precarious fishing boats, escaping one danger while facing another. Pemba, a port town on Mozambique’s northeastern coast, looked like a beach resort postcard, and it was hard to reconcile the heavenly landscape with the stories of pain, violence and fear from the people who fled their homes. I had arrived in Mozambique for the first time only two days earlier and was discovering the country and the humanitarian crisis I heard so little about. In a small school courtyard, five women and a man were sitting on plastic chairs in a loose semicircle, with two-meter COVID-19 gaps separating them from each other. You can register to attend in person or online here.
The AIIA National Office and the ICRC will be holding a webinar focusing on Gender and Humanitarian Action on Tuesday, March 9. This article is part of the ‘Gender & Humanitarian Action’ series run by the International Committee of the Red Cross in partnership with Australian Outlook. An International Committee of the Red Cross delegate reflects on the ethics of respecting the dignity of communities, while trying to share their story. In Mozambique, conflict and displacement is not so distant.
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