Humanitarian Assistance

Counterpart International (Counterpart) began its work in Sudan in 2005 delivering medical supplies and equipment to Darfur. Since then, Counterpart has procured, transported and delivered relief commodities valued at more than $7.8 million to communities in Darfur and South Sudan (at least 58 percent of beneficiaries are returnees). Counterpart established its office in South Sudan in 2006. Counterpart's Women and Girls Education and Livelihoods Support Project is now underway in the Kapoeta South County, working to increase access to education for returnee girls and income generation for returnee women.
 
Ocean Freight Reimbursement:
USAID's OFR Program offers subsidies to Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs) to ship commodities overseas for use in privately funded development and humanitarian assistance programs. This has been critical to the success of Counterpart's programs and operations across the world. While USAID reimburses the costs of ocean freight, participating PVOs pay for other costs, such as commodity acquisition, warehousing, insurance, local transportation and distribution.
 
Since its inception, Counterpart's OFR program has worked in Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chad, Cambodia, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Liberia, Lithuania, Mali, Mauritania, Maldives, Nicaragua, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia.
 
 
Former Humanitarian Assistance Projects in Sudan:
Classroom Construction in South Sudan

Current Humanitarian Assistance Projects in Sudan:
Women and Girls Education and Livelihoods Support

Feature Stories:

Juba Women's Cooperative Introduces Brick Making

Success: Rebuilding in South Sudan

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