Djugu, August 17th, 2026 (CPA).– More than 4,400 displaced and returnee households in the Bambu health zone, in Ituri, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have received humanitarian assistance from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a project communications officer told the CPa on Monday. “In total, 4,462 households from villages in the Dala and Zengo health zones, within the Mambisa chiefdom, received this emergency humanitarian assistance,” has said Tresor Muyumba, communications officer for the UNICEF Rapid Response (UNIRR) project at the NGO Program for the Promotion of Primary Health Care (PPSSP). “Each beneficiary household has received essential household items, including three pieces of cloth, kitchen utensils, blankets, mats and torches, as well as a Water, Hygiene and Sanitation kit,” he has added.
Muyumba has specified that this kit consists of a 20-litre jerrycan, two 20-litre buckets (one of which is for handwashing and fitted with a tap), four bars of laundry soap and six bars of toilet soap. The beneficiaries, he continued, “also received a personal hygiene kit for women of reproductive age, as well as a basic shelter kit comprising two tarpaulins and a roll of rope”. Mr Muyumba has indicated that, at the same time, more than 1,000 adolescent girls specifically received menstrual hygiene kits as part of this intervention implemented by UNICEF through its implementing partner, PPSSP. “In the context of the Ebola virus disease outbreak, we have adapted the distribution strategy to avoid large gatherings. In villages accessible to large lorries, teams carried out door-to-door deliveries, whilst fixed distribution points were set up for other beneficiaries,” he has explained.
This approach aims, in particular, to limit contact and gatherings, in line with the preventive measures recommended in areas affected by the Ebola virus disease outbreak. For the beneficiaries, this assistance provides relief from the difficulties associated with displacement and precarious living conditions, particularly in areas where people are returning. This intervention aims to provide vital support to populations affected by crises and displacement in the targeted areas, it is emphasised.