Photo Essays
Learning to succeedLiberia04.04.2011
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The IRC is helping disadvantaged girls and young women in Liberia learn a trade or start their own business. So far, all the program's graduates have gone on to build successful businesses, an achievement that is all the more remarkable given the country’s dire poverty and the lack of opportunity for women. | ||
A reunion in the BronxUS - New York, NY04.01.2011
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In the fall of 2009 Chet Nath Timsina’s parents, Dill Ram, 66, Man Maya, 63, and his youngest brother, Om, 22, arrived in New York from the refugee camp in Nepal where they had been living for 18 years. Photographer Misha Cohen documented the family’s first few weeks in the United States. | ||
Meningitis outbreakChad03.25.2011
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In March 2011, the IRC, its UN partners and the government of Chad vaccinated 40,000 people in four days as a deadly meningitis epidemic reached a refugee camp where the IRC is the sole health provider. | ||
After the floodPakistan03.22.2011
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More than six months on, the humanitarian crisis brought about by the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history is far from over. The IRC is providing clean water and health care, and helping hard hit communities to rebuild vital infrastructure and kick start their local economies. | ||
New refugee campsEthiopia03.21.2011
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IRC president George Rupp shares photos of his March 2011 visit to two relatively new refugee camps in northern Ethiopia, Mai Aini and Adi Harush, which serve as a temporary home for families who fled conflict in neighboring Eritrea. | ||
Shimelba's childrenEthiopia03.17.2011
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IRC president George Rupp shares photos of his March 2011 visit to classrooms in the Shimelba refugee camp in Ethiopia where the IRC provides educational programs for pre-schoolers up to adults. | ||
Shimelba refugee campEthiopia03.16.2011
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IRC president George Rupp describes his March 2011 visit to the Shimelba refugee camp. The camp was the first stop on a journey through Ethiopia's northwestern Tigray region, where the IRC's work focuses on children, women, health, water and sanitation. | ||
Protecting communities from choleraAfrica, Zimbabwe03.10.2011
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A decade of economic troubles has eroded Zimbabwe's water and sanitation infrastructure, leaving its people vulnerable to cholera and other water borne illnesses. The IRC is working in the country's remote eastern highlands to help restore community water systems and respond to outbreaks of disease. | ||
Trying to get home03.07.2011
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A transit center set up in Tunisia at the Ras Adjir border crossing has become saturated with people who fled the crisis in Libya -- many of them foreign workers who are trying to make their way home. As the arrivals outpace the departures, the IRC is launching sanitation and shelter services. Chris de Bode with our partner SV shared these photos from the border. | ||
A health system on life supportLiberia03.04.2011
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Fifteen years of civil war left Liberia's healthcare system in ruins. The IRC is providing medicine, doctors and equipment to 33 rural clinics and five hospitals that serve more than 320,000 people. The IRC also supports the largest pediatric facility in the capital, Monrovia. |





