African Refugee Council (ARC) is a humanitarian organisation focused on doing everything possible to protect refugees, internal displaced people and vulnerable during crisis in Africa. ARC was founded in 2018 by a team of doctors, project managers and environmental specialists, most of whom, faced displacement from war and a motivated to help those in need.

African Refugee Council run a series of programmes which include:

· Health — ARC run extensive health programmes focused on mother and child health, nutritional and health emergency response, tackling malaria through treatment and vaccination, and running primary healthcare services in refugee camps for those wounded in war.

· Water, Sanitation and Hygiene — ARC install water, hygiene and sanitation facilities at different schools and refugees’ camps as well as running awareness and education programmes for the maintenance of good hygiene and sanitation.

· Education — ARC works with children and young people to deliver psychosocial, and emotional support programmes as they face the trauma of crisis as well as provided clothing, shoes, and other material to allow their focus to remain on education. They are run technical training programmes to develop young people’s skills for employment.

· Food Security — ARC provide Emergency Food Packages to those displaced to prevent loss of life from starvation. They also carry out analysis in the camp to assess the level of food vulnerability and ensure necessary provisions are provided.

· Camp Management — ARC help ensure human rights are promoted to everyone and full protection and assistance can be provided where they may be violated.

CSRN Engagement

CSRN has been able to work with African Refugee Council to support their fundraising and partnerships effort as they aimed to diversify their fundraising efforts to invest into their humanitarian projects and develop the capacity of their medical teams to address the escalating needs of displaced communities.

The work was delivered by the 180DC York team as part of The Refugee Initiative. Hear from Remy Wasingya, Founder and CEO below on the project:

“Working with CSRN and 180DC York has helped us in several ways. Our organization has undergone positive evolution since we began working with CSRN. Thanks to the consultancy activities of CSRN and 180DC York, we have improved our media system for our activities, including the creation of a Facebook page which today has more than 2 thousand subscribers.

Consultancy actions help us in several activities, especially at the organizational and financial level, especially in raising the necessary funds that can allow us to launch the project which will soon be relaunched. Currently our organization is growing day by day.

I thank you (CSRN) for all that you are doing to connect our organization to other organizations and supporters, thanks for all efforts that you are doing so the project may get supporters. I’m so proud to work with you”.

We are currently working with African Refugee Council on a second project to secure funding for a large medical equipment shipment and set up distribution channels.

If you are a student consultancy interested in supporting, please apply through our projects page.