Red Cross hits the road with its ‘Humanity needs you’ campaign
Officials from the Uganda Red Cross Society have taken to Kampala roads to popularize the Humanity Needs You campaign in which the organization seeks fundraise for humanitarian aid.
On Monday, the URCS Secretary General, Robert Kwesiga led other volunteers to preach the gospel of funding the humanitarian cause.
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“We are telling the public that humanity needs you and we are going to continue with different activities of spectrum of what we do and how the public can work with us and the climax, which will be later in the year, is around setting up what we call a Red Cross humanitarian fund,” Kwesiga said.
“We are telling each one of us that make a contribution because the emergency the Red Cross responds to, the preparedness the Red Cross works on, the other action, the mitigation needs resources and those resources incrementally be made by each one of us making a contribution. “
Kwesiga insisted that there is no way Uganda Red Cross will be sustainable by relying on external partners.
“ It is every day you send your children to the neighbour to eat and you think your family will be safe. If we are looking at the sustainability of Red Cross activities, international funding and donors can’t help.”
He said through the campaign, they want to inform the public of the ongoing fundraising that will climax with the launch of the humanitarian fund.
