Refugees are being encouraged to move into southern regions of the country. CARE's relief efforts in Albania respond to a variety of needs within a wide geographical area. CARE is helping families in five regions, anticipating refugee movement towards the south, ongoing influxes to the north and possible arrivals from the east.
Refugees continue to arrive in Albania in sporadic movements from Kosovo and Montenegro.
In Kukes, CARE will manage the Kukes II refugee camp beginning May 2. The camp will house more than 7,100 people. In addition, CARE likely will manage a nearby camp housing 1,100 refugees. To help those too exhausted at border crossings and groups of refugees that have not made their way to formal camps, CARE will provide a mobile humanitarian project that will provide non-food supplies and therapy to vulnerable people missed by mainstream relief. In Elbasan, CARE will provide supplementary food and non-food distributions to a new camp in Gramsh, and in areas of Peqin and Shushice.