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AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE - ARC 

ARC serve 55,000 Congolese refugees and manages all three major refugee camps in Rwanda, providing health care, water, construction, and sanitation services as well as programs combating gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. ARC also manages successful income generation programs in the camps and hires and trains refugees wherever possible (ARC).

 

While Nyabiheke is the newest with refugees arriving between 2005 and 2008, Gihembe and Kiziba were established in 1996 and their population has stayed put since then. Basically any child in primary or secondary school – and there are over 15,000 – has only lived inside the camps (ARC).

 

All camp-based refugees receive food assistance, even though the standard of 2,100 kcal per day is not always met due to temporary shortages of some food items. Water supplies are variable. Indeed, while supplies are tight in Gihembe and Nyabiheke camps, where they range from 7-14 litres per person per day, in Kiziba residents get more than 20 litres per person per day (UNHCR 2013).

 

Services

• Camp Management
• Health care: HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health Care, Nuitrition, GBV
• Water, construction, and sanitation services
• Constructs and maintains shelters, roads, bridges, latrines, water points, shower rooms, safe houses for survivors of gender-based violence, market places, and vocational training centers.

 

Purpose

• "ARC Rwanda  works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to refugees, displaced people and host communities. We help people survive conflict and crisis and rebuild lives of dignity, health, security and self-sufficiency. ARC Rwanda program is committed to the delivery of programs that ensure measurable quality and lasting impact for the people we serve" (ARC RW).

 

Other relevant information

Founded in	1994
Headquarters	In Rwanda it is in Kigali. Otherwise it is in Minneapolis, USA Tel: (612) 872-7060
Works in which Districts	Gihembe Camp, near Byumba in  Gicumbi; Kiziba Camp, near Kibuye in Karongi; and Nyabiheke Camp, near Gituza in Gatsibo.
Religious or political affiliations	No
Open to help more	Yes
How to get assistance	Refugees are automatically distributed in the camps
Open for volunteers	Yes, Click here to see more
Number of Employees/Volunteers	?

 

Financial information

Main Donors	BRPM, UNHCR, PEPFAR, Al Pace Foundation, Frankel Foundation, and Julie Taft
Main Partners	GoR, UNCHR, UNICEF
Income	UNHCR's comprehensive budget for Rwanda for 2013 amounts to USD 29.8 million (UNHCR 2013).
Expenditures
Lacks	In Kiziba they lack school equipment tables etc for 17 new classrooms. They also lack an ambulance.