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Every day, IRC humanitarian workers are rescuing lives. Here, they offer a glimpse of their experiences, the challenges they face and the courageous people they meet by sharing videos, photos and stories.
Posted by The IRC on June 19, 2013
Working with the IRC, photographer Andrew McConnell spent many months documenting the lives of refugees in eight cities across four continents: "Hidden Lives: The Untold Story of Urban Refugees," goes on public view in New York City on June 21. more »
Posted in Urban Refugees | Tags: refugees, World Refugee Day, Hidden Lives, Panos Pictures, Andrew McConnell |
Posted by The IRC on June 18, 2013
Since the start of 2013, the IRC, working with Syrian partners, has opened up health clinics, provided clean water, launched schools and distributed medicine, blankets, plastic sheeting and other essential items to desperate Syrians. more »
Posted in Syria Crisis, Syria | Tags: photos, humanitarian aid, Syrian crisis, Syria photos |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on June 14, 2013
I first met Abdallah Ibrahim Yare in Dadaab complex, home to 500,000 refugees, two years ago at the height of the famine in Somalia. He and his family, along with thousands of others, had trekked for days to Kenya in search of food and safety. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, hunger, malnutrition, Somali refugees, Dadaab, Aden Abdallah Ibrahim |
Posted by The IRC on June 14, 2013
In January, we introduced you to Hassan Omar Ibrahim, a Somali who was forced to flee his home due to the famine and was living at Carafat camp, in Galkayo, Somalia. This is the next chapter in his story. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Somalia | Tags: drought, sanitation, Galkayo |
Posted by The IRC on June 14, 2013
At 23, Hamid was in medical school in Canada when war broke out in Syria. Today, he’s a veteran of frontline medicine. He returned to Syria when the war begin and now works at an IRC-supported field hospital in Aleppo. more »
Posted in Health, Syria | Tags: Syria crisis, medicine, doctors, chemical weapons, Aleppo |
Posted by The IRC on June 13, 2013
On June 20, 2013 the IRC will join the United Nations in its annual salute to the courage of refugees, World Refugee Day. IRC offices around the world are marking World Refugee Day with a variety of events throughout the month of June. more »
Posted in Resettlement | Tags: refugees, World Refugee Day |
Posted by The IRC on June 13, 2013
After more than two years of civil war in Syria, a humanitarian disaster is gripping the Middle East. Over four million Syrians are now in dire need of assistance. On June 11, the IRC hosted a phone briefing on the Syria crisis and our response. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Syria Crisis, Syria, Middle East, Lebanon | Tags: refugees, aid workers, Syrian refugees, Syria crisis |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on June 12, 2013
Approximately 50,000 people have fled renewed violence in Darfur, Sudan since January, according to U.N. estimates, many crossing the border into eastern Chad. The IRC is working to meet their desperate need for clean water. more »
Posted by Ned Colt on June 12, 2013
This week marks one year since the IRC opened two primary health care centers in the Jordanian border cities of Mafraq and Ramtha. In that single year, close to 22,000 Syrian refugees have received checkups, pre- and post- natal care, and prescriptions for free medicine from local pharmacies. more »
Posted in Syria Crisis, Jordan | Tags: refugees, health, urban refugees, conflict, Syrian refugees, Syria conflict |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on June 11, 2013
The IRC in Kenya has been responding to a polio outbreak in the world’s largest refugee complex, Dadaab. The five camps in this sprawling complex house almost half a million refugees, mainly from Somalia. more »
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