Syrian Arab Red Crescent’s health response to save lives and minimize the overall impacts of Cholera outbreak related morbidity and mortality through the provision of timely Cholera awareness promotion sessions and provision of medication to the most vulnerable communities in Syria. Through a comprehensive WASH and Health response with Disaster Management Department, providing guidance in prioritizing the needed areas of support based on this data. SARC’s response strategy focus on following thematic areas:
1.Internal and external coordination 
2. Water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH)
3.Health
4.Emergency Medical Services

SARC along with the support of IFRC, in-country PNSs, ICRC and other UN agencies adopted the following approach to respond to Cholera outbreak in the country:
- Establish a Cholera response coordination team taskforce to ensure effective information sharing coordination among partners.
- Scale-up health/WASH community interventions and CEA activities ensuring community mobilization and people-centered services. 
- Scale-up SARC’s medical services for the proper management of Cholera cases.
- Ensure adequate and appropriate, cost-effective resource utilization through the coordination and unification of the procurement process
- Build the capacity of SARC staff and volunteer on the timely detection, investigation, and implementation of Cholera response activities. 
- Ensure community access to safe and clean water through hard WASH activities 
- Integrate SARC’s community health and WASH activities, emergency medical services and SARC’s medical facilities to ensure a comprehensive Cholera response approach through the establishment of proper referral pathways. 
- Establish a monitoring and evaluation mechanism using quantitative and qualitative data, and community feedback to identify information gaps and direct/re-direct implementation.

Based on the results of a rapid assessment that was conducted at the beginning of the response, a total of 750 volunteers and 150 staff members engaged in the Cholera response. The response was activated first in Aleppo and Deir-Ezzor and is expanding to other affected governorates and the general public through national campaigns. 
This project is proposed to fill the gap in funding for the planned response and will help SARC target the most vulnerable people affected by cholera in hot spots districts in a timely manner.

The proposed response is to reduce community transmission, morbidity and mortality associated with the Cholera outbreak and increase human dignity to affected communities in Syria through a gender-responsive approach focusing on health, WASH and building on the already established SARC partnerships between SARC and RCRC Movement Partners, UN agencies and the international non-governmental organizations. The response is very much in line with the priorities identified in SARC’s Cholera Response Plan and the technical clusters in Syria, the strategic priorities of SARC and global Cholera response strategies. For this project, SARC will target communities who are most vulnerable to Cholera infection in affected governorate, and to ensure a rapid, efficient, and coordinated response by the SARC health teams. The  key activities in the proposed action will focus on the following:
- Conduct community awareness campaigns at the community level (e.g., schools, Household visits, IDP settlements, markets…
- Training of the EMS volunteers on case management, IPC, and transportation of cases at the branch's levels