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@missblair140 Glad you like the t-shirt. Thanks for your support!
May 21, 2012
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#Mali: Addressing hunger one health center at a time t.co/KzExlHb1
May 21, 2012
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These pix from Mali show the devastating impact of the #drought sweeping across Africa's #Sahel region: t.co/6dO5jkrY
May 21, 2012
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@mmm_dumpling @GPTW_Global @CorConnection @hiltonprize @NataCour @SharonDAgostino Thanks for your support!
May 18, 2012
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On the blog: Uganda after #Kony: Alice Akoko’s story t.co/qpKLefsZ
May 18, 2012
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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 May 9, 2011
Today, ITVS launched Women and Girls Lead, a public media initiative that uses independent films to focus, educate and connect audiences in support of women and girls' leadership and development around the world. We're excited to be a non-profit partner on this project. more »
Posted in Women, United States | Tags: Women and Girls, ITVS, CPB, Women and Girls Lead | 0 Comments
Posted by Kathleen Sands Adams on May 8, 2011
Happy Mother's Day! Over the past week we've been sharing some of our favorite stories about mothers. Today -- Lay Htoo and her newborn at the Tham Hin refugee camp, near the Thailand-Myanmar border. more »
Posted in Health, Asia, Thailand | Tags: humanitarian, midwives, refugee camps, women, Mother's Day 2011, Mother's Day gifts, prenatal care | 0 Comments
Posted by Kathleen Sands Adams on May 7, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day — Sunday, May 8 — we're spotlighting some of our favorite stories about mothers: With support from an IRC economic empowerment program, Annie Grant runs a market stall in a Monrovia suburb. "I make enough money now to send my children to school," she says. more »
Posted in Education, Africa, Liberia | Tags: humanitarian, education, women, Mother's Day 2011, Mother's Day gifts | 1 Comments
Posted by Kathleen Sands Adams on May 6, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day — Sunday, May 8 — we're spotlighting mothers' stories: Ruti Riziki arrived in Mungote camp in November 2009 after fleeing fighting between government troops and rebels in her village. The International Rescue Committee has been aiding Congolese families like Ruti’s since 1996. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: congo, humanitarian, Mother's Day, conflict, Democratic Republic of Congo | 0 Comments
Posted by Kathleen Sands Adams on May 6, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day we're spotlighting some of our favorite stories about mothers. In the Ivory Coast, Prisca Mondo worried that without a birth certificate her baby daughter would not have a legal identity. With the IRC's help she was able to register two-month-old Daria, securing her access to education and health services. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Africa, Ivory Coast | Tags: children, Cote d'Ivoire, humanitarian, Ivory Coast, Mother's Day 2011, birth certificates | 0 Comments
Posted by The IRC on May 5, 2011
On a recent trip to Iraq, the IRC’s Kate Phillips-Barrasso was struck by how little had changed in the last few years for those forced to flee for their lives. She argues that the political will must be found to prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable Iraqis before U.S. forces depart. more »
Posted in Iraqi Refugees, Middle East, Iraq | Tags: refugees, Iraq, Iraqi refugees, humanitarian, Advocacy, news, quoted | 0 Comments
Posted by Kathleen Sands Adams on May 5, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day we're spotlighting some of our favorite posts about mothers. Almost 20 years after they were banished from their home in Bhutan, Uma Timsina and her husband Chet Nath left a refugee camp in Nepal—and everything familiar—to rebuild their lives with their young son in New York. more »
Posted in Resettlement, United States, US - New York, NY | Tags: refugees, bhutanese refugees, humanitarian, mother's day gift, resettlement, mothers, Mother's Day 2011 | 0 Comments
Posted by Kathleen Sands Adams on May 4, 2011
Sister Francoise Muhanzi and her assistant Zawadi Mukaba, showing off some of the newest arrivals in Kabare General Hospital's maternity ward. One in 13 women in Congo dies in pregnancy or childbirth. The IRC is improving reproductive health care by training medical staff like Sister Francoise and Zawadi. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: congo, reproductive health, Bukavu | 0 Comments
Posted by Kathleen Sands Adams on May 4, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day -- Sunday, May 8 -- we're spotlighting some of our favorite posts about mothers: With training from the IRC, home-based community health provider Nyibol Akol Padiet, a mother of three, is treating common childhood diseases in her own village. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: Africa, health, Mother's Day, Southern Sudan, Mother's Day 2011, community health providers | 0 Comments
Posted by Ned Colt on May 3, 2011
From my perch atop a twenty foot high clay mound, I am surrounded by a sea of dusty white. I’m looking out over the close to thirty thousand tents that comprise the Jalozai IDP Camp outside of Peshawar. For those of you unfamiliar with refugee acronyms, IDP stands for “internally displaced person.” There are an estimated seventy thousand of them at Jalozai. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: humanitarian, IDPs, refugee camps, education, conflict, Pakistan, Jalozai | 4 Comments
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