Service Projects

Climate change multiplying the risk of the vulnerable community living in rural and urban community. The extreme weather such as drought, induced to the reduction of water supplies and increase the vulnerable communities’ risks on Water and Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Health. Due to the rapid urbanization, rising population living in unfavourable living environment with high density, limited space and bad hygiene environment which enhance their risks on disaster and hygiene.

In the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, over 230 million population living in the urban community of Dhaka. Due to the lack of the land in the urban area, the vulnerable groups can only live in the crowded and packed living environment with insufficient hygiene facilities and adverse hygiene.

Heatwave, fire incidents, floods and earthquake are major disaster risks due to dense population, cramped living condition & unsafe building structure.

Women, children, aged people, and the people with disabilities in general and the vulnerable communities (lower-caste people of slum population) suffer the most at times of the calamities and hazards and tend to have feeble mitigation planning.

In Nepal, only 13.3 per cent people has access to safely managed water. This shows remaining gaps (over 80%) in ensuring access to safe water across the country.

To strengthen the community resilience to combat the risks of extreme weather, Hong Kong Red Cross work with National Societies applying nature-based solution, mobilization local resources and community and applying Protection, Gender and Inclusion to launch WASH project.  In the urban community, through training on disaster preparedness and awareness raising to engage the vulnerable community to reduce their risk on urban disasters.