Photo Essays
Fighting HIV/AIDS in KenyaKenya12.01.2010
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Almost three decades after the first cases of AIDS were recorded, nearly 30 million people have died of HIV-related causes. In Kenya, the IRC has been helping refugees and local communities protect themselves from this modern plague — and the stigma associated with it. | ||
Family reunion in HaitiHaiti11.24.2010
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After losing his wife and his home to January's devastating earthquake, Oservio Janvier lost touch with the relatives who found and cared for his son in the chaos that followed. Nine months later, an IRC family tracing team's detective work brought an overjoyed Oservio and his little boy, nine-year-old Genald, back together. | ||
Pakistan after the floodsPakistan11.23.2010
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The IRC is providing lifesaving aid to families who lost their homes and livelihoods to the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history. Although flood waters have receded in the northwestern Nowshera district and other hard-hit areas, the situation remains desperate. | ||
Swat after the floodsPakistan11.23.2010
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The people of Swat Valley have gone through unimaginable suffering in the course of just two years; first when the Pakistani military launched an offensive to drive out Taliban militants from the area and then by the worst floods in Pakistan’s history. The IRC is helping local communities recover and rebuild. | ||
The lifesaving midwives of Tham HinThailand11.18.2010
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Nestled deep in the hills of Western Thailand, the Tham Hin refugee camp is a patchwork of bamboo huts housing nearly 8,000 people. Most of the camp’s residents are refugees from Myanmar who have fled war and upheaval in their homeland and have lived in the camp for years, or in some cases, decades. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is the camp’s sole provider of health care, including the vital service of training and providing midwives. Each year, 15 IRC-trained midwives examine and support hundreds of women and children in the camp. The examinations can detect potentially life-threatening conditions such as infections, severe anemia or an abnormal position of the fetus, in time for treatment and referral to hospitals outside the camp.Photos and text by Peter Biro/The IRC | ||
Taking cholera very seriouslyHaiti11.17.2010
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Earthquake survivors living in crowded camps in Port-au-Prince are taking a deadly outbreak of cholera — Haiti's first — very seriously. The IRC has trained community members to educate their neighbors about ways to avoid getting sick. | ||
After Hurricane TomasHaiti11.06.2010
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Susana Ferreira was part of an IRC team assessing damage a day after Hurricane Tomas battered parts of Haiti still struggling to recover from January's earthquake. She took these photos in three of the camps the team visited in Port-au-Prince. | ||
Celebrating DiwaliUS - New York, NY11.04.2010
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Though far from their families and without access to many traditional items used in Diwali celebrations, dozens of Bhutanese refugees gathered in the small Bronx apartment of Chet Nath Timsina’s cousin Yamuna to celebrate the festival of lights. It was the Timsina family’s first time observing the holiday in the United States. They were recently resettled in the Bronx by the IRC, after nearly two decades in a refugee camp in Nepal. | ||
After Cyclone GiriAsia, Myanmar11.04.2010
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The IRC is assisting communities affected by Cyclone Giri, which struck the northwestern coast of Myanmar in late October. According to the government, some 71,000 people were displaced and over 14,000 homes destroyed. | ||
Tomas Threatens HaitiCaribbean, Haiti11.04.2010
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Earthquake survivors living in tent settlements in Haiti brace for Tropical Storm Tomas as IRC teams go door-to-door helping families prepare. IRC communications officer Susana Ferreira shared these photos. |





