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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on April 27th, 2012
The IRC will start providing emergency nutrition to children under five and to pregnant and new mothers in Mongo -- one of the hardest-hit areas of Chad's drought-sticken Guéra region -- in the coming days. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Health, Sahel Crisis, Africa, Chad | Tags: nutrition, Sahel, Chad_Sahel |
Posted by The.IRC on April 26th, 2012
Cultivating acceptance for the importance of early childhood education, especially for girls, has been an uphill battle in an isolated community of nomadic herders in Kenya. Learn how an IRC water tank helped fill the local school's classrooms with new students. more »
Posted in Health, Education, Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: water, education, Turkana, We Can Be Heroes | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on April 26th, 2012
Knowledge we take for granted - like how to work a western toilet and use an oven - is shared during the IRC's cultural orientation class for residents of Thailand's Mae La refugee camp who are about to be resettled in the United States. more »
Posted in Resettlement, Asia, Thailand | Tags: refugees, Burmese refugees, Resettlement Support Center |
Posted by The.IRC on April 25th, 2012
In an interview posted today on the Celebrity Baby Scoop blog, Sarah Wayne Callies speaks beautifully about her roles on The Walking Dead, as an IRC Voice, and as a mother. more »
Posted in Mothers | Tags: refugees, mothers, noted, humanitarian aid, Sarah Wayne Callies | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on April 25th, 2012
The IRC's Bob Carey was interviewed for a recent Philadelphia Inquirer column on dangers facing Iraqis who worked for U.S. forces, as they wait for Special Immigrant Visas to be processed. more »
Posted in Advocacy, Iraqi Refugees, Middle East, Iraq | Tags: Iraqi refugees, Advocacy, war, Special Immigrant Visas | 1 Comments
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on April 24th, 2012
The IRC's Sophia Jones-Mwangi speaks with IRC medical staff who are at the forefront of providing crucial care throughout the drought-stricken Bahr el Gazal region of western Chad. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Health, Sahel Crisis, Africa, Chad | Tags: aid workers, health, hunger, malnutrition, food, poverty, community health workers, humanitarian aid, Bahr el Gazal, Chad_Sahel, health care, pneumonia |
Posted by The.IRC on April 24th, 2012
Basketball is much more than a game in Salaam Dunk, a stirring documentary about an Iraqi women’s basketball team. For the young women on the team, it is a blissful release from the realities of a war-torn nation. more »
Posted in Iraqi Refugees, Women, US - San Diego, CA | Tags: sports, women, what we're watching |
Posted by Jane Yang on April 23rd, 2012
In Kenya, matters of money are typically considered the man’s province. In an effort to address cultural inequities that affect economic growth, the IRC has been bringing spouses together to talk about the importance of setting goals collectively, as a family. more »
Posted in Women, Domestic Violence, Africa, Kenya | Tags: urban refugees, Women's Rights, women, poverty |
Posted by Jane Yang on April 21st, 2012
They’re officially named “block health committees,” but to IRC grants intern Jane Yang they’re the Kakuma refugee camp clean-up brigade, teams of neighborhood volunteers on a mission to ensure safe and sanitary conditions within the camp. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, Kenya | Tags: Earth Day, Kakuma, sanitation, Kakuma_environment |
Posted by The.IRC on April 20th, 2012
The IRC's Marion Dols on how the IRC is providing care for women in the overwhelmed Yida refugee camp, where hundreds of desperate Sudanese fleeing fighting and a severe food shortage are arriving each day. more »
Posted in Health, Mothers, Women, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: health, women, reproductive health, South Kordofan, Yida refugee camp | 3 Comments
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