Facts and figures

20-02-2013 Facts and Figures

In 2012, the ICRC:

in close cooperation with the Red Cross Society of Côte d’Ivoire, held 41,000 consultations and administered 110,000 doses of vaccine with the help of the mobile clinic covering the area between Bloléquin and Goya;
enabled over 30,000 returnees to clear 5,000 hectares of coffee and cocoa plantations as part of a “money for work” programme, in 39 villages in the department of Zouan Hounien;
distributed 165 tonnes of seed and farming implements to over 34,000 returnees in 59 villages in the departments of Zouan Toulepleu, Bloléquin, Bangolo, Sassandra and Danané;
distributed over 20 million CFA francs to 204 women breadwinners to enable them to do income-generating work in the cities of Duékoué, Bloléquin and Sinfra;
built 450 houses for over 3,500 people in Toulepleu, Bloléquin, Sassandra, Bin-Houyé and Zouan-Hounien;
enabled 122 unaccompanied children who had taken refuge in neighbouring countries to find their parents;
visited over 7,900 detainees during 193 visits to 69 places of detention, both temporary and permanent;
monitored 447 people detained in temporary places of detention individually.