Caritas Kabale Diocese entered into collaboration with Caritas Internationalis Belgium to implement a project “Protection Humanitaire au cœur de l’Action [Humanitarian Protection at the heart of Action” as an emergency response to address critical lifesaving needs for forcefully displaced & stateless persons (FDSPS)-in Nyakabande Transit Center-Kisoro. 
Some of the Key outputs and possible outcomes Include;

  • Solid waste management activity in Nyakabande transit center. Caritas Kabale Diocese worked with Kisoro district authorities to offer a dumping site, OPM, ALIGHT and Iwacu Contractors Ltd as service providers to make sure existing systems and infrastructure are not overloaded, particularly in the Transit Center. Risk of solid waste pollution of the environment is kept to a minimum.
  • NFIs delivery and distribution to the vulnerable people. Caritas Kabale was able to provide household items to at least 500 vulnerable families to enhance case management support services.  These items included blankets, coloured mats, Plastic buckets, WASH items especially soap and menstrual hygiene items/sanitary pads to girls and women of reproductive ageWater Sanitation and Hygiene support in the Nyakabande Transit center. In a bid to promote the three Key Hygiene Practices of Correct method and frequency of hand washing; Proper and consistent use of latrines and Drinking safe water, fixing nonfunctional water taps in the transit center and repairing broken water collection points were accomplished. A total of 58 nonfunctional water taps on hand washing facilities were replaced and all broken water points were repaired and are now operational. 
  • De-sludging activity. Caritas Kabale Diocese engaged the services of Opex Hygienic services Ltd to de-sludge the toilets and pit latrines for people to have adequate, appropriate and acceptable toilets/ latrines to allow rapid, safe and secure access at all times. This first phase of de-sludging, has led to a total volume of 118m3 of excreta removed from the toilets and pit latrines in Nyakabande Transit Center.
  • Firewood for hot meals preparation. Caritas Kabale Diocese engaged the services of Iwacu contractors limited to supply firewood for hot meals preparation. 200m3 were delivered to the kitchen to allow the kitchen department prepare meals for the FDSPs to have well cooked food.
  • Caritas Kabale delivered vegetables and serving equipment for urgent hot meals support at Nyakabande transit center that included Onions, Cabbages,5 Tomatoes,10 Plastic buckets of the capacity 40 litres,10 metallic buckets and serving ladles