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Posted by Ned Colt on May 3rd, 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
Posted by The.IRC on May 2nd, 2011
Get an update on three refugee families -- the Bwisezes from Tanzania, the al Malhams from Iraq, and the Bhandaris from Nepal -- who were all resettled by the IRC in Charlottesville. more »
Posted in Iraqi Refugees | Tags: refugees, Iraqi refugees, bhutanese refugees, resettlement, education, news, Nepalese refugees, Tanzanian refugees, Congolese refugese, WVIR series |
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