Core Community Organized Relief Effort (J/P HRO)

Public health response - in 2023, Core fully transitioned out of the covid pandemic response. Its covid vaccination activities continued as a part of a broader public health response in Georgia and Illinois, with the addition of monkeypox and flu vaccinations.

Haiti programs - programs in haiti include disaster response, youth education, Community development, a dental clinic, construction, and redevelopment of neighborhoods. Its reforestation initiative, which began in 2016, has progressed from planning to implementation phases, supporting smallholder farmers to adapt to the effects of a changing climate and to reverse over 200 years of deforestation in haiti.

Humanitarian response - humanitarian activities related to the ukraine-russia war continued in ukraine, poland, and romania, with increasing activities in ukraine, both for reconstruction of liberated areas with significant damage in the east, and support to idps in the west. Core also started up unconditional cash programming in sudan, which was beset by huge humanitarian needs following the outbreak of civil conflict in april. Core responded to a number of emergencies in 2023, from the turkey / syria earthquake in february, to the ongoing humanitarian needs of migrants crossing the us/mexico border. Continuing its disaster response work domestically, Core responded to hurricane idalia which struck Florida and Georgia in september october 2023.