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NATIONAL SOCIETY PROFILE
The Senegalese Red Cross Society was established by law in 1963 and admitted to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the same year. The mission of the Senegalese Red Cross Society is to prevent and alleviate suffering, in all impartiality, without any distinction of race, nationality, class, religion or political opinion.
The National Society is present in the 14 regions and 46 departments of Senegal, and remains one of the leading humanitarian institutions, neutral and independent, and auxiliary to the public authorities. It is active in several areas, including disaster preparedness and response, health, first aid training, searching for missing persons and restoring family links, promotion of humanitarian ideals and values, dissemination of international humanitarian law, and raising awareness of the need to respect the Red Cross emblem and the law protecting the emblem in Senegal.
Since its creation, the National Society has managed more than 20 large-scale emergency operations and assisted a total of more than six million people in Senegal. The National Society has been responding to epidemics, electoral violence, food crises, community health issues, shelter problems, migration and population displacement, accompanying people and helping them to recover from disasters.
The Senegalese Red Cross Society relies on 30,000 volunteers, over 100 national disaster response team members trained in the areas of shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene, health, food security, nutrition, livelihoods and cash transfers, and over 2,500 community disaster response team members. It also has 62 early warning system focal points, 59 focal points for restoring family links present in each departmental committee, 10 migration focal points, and 46 communications focal points.
The National Society’s experience in emergencies has also been demonstrated in the rapid deployment of emergency stocks to people affected by disasters.
In 2021, the Senegalese Red Cross Society reached 2010 people with long term services and development programmes and 2805 people with disaster response and early recovery programmes.