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@IRCPress You've been quoted in my #Storify story "Crisis in Darfur, 10 Years On" t.co/guLOti8F02
May 21, 2013
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RT @IRCPress: Race against time to aid new #Darfur #refugees in Chad before rains begin: t.co/z6eDBFeR1I
May 21, 2013
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RT @MoveEndViolence: Why do we need a #movement to end #VAWG? #MovementMaker Heidi Lehmann of @theIRC on the blog. t.co/H74c80BdAs
May 20, 2013
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May 20, 2013
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RT @IRCuk: Thanks @LCO_orchestra @RiyadNicolas @cadoganhall for an excellent concert & for supporting our work w. Syrian refugees #TheAsfar…
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Posted by Euan.Robinson on August 12th, 2011
During the floods last year in Pakistan, wells and other infrastructure were washed away or destroyed. The IRC has installed water tanks, hand pumps and latrines across Sindh Province to prevent the spread of disease and educates people about how to stay healthy. more »
Posted in Pakistan Floods, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: health, sanitation, water, Pakistan floods, Pakistan |
Posted by The.IRC on August 5th, 2011
More than 1,300 refugees fleeing drought and famine in southern Somalia are arriving every day in the already overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp near the Kenya-Somalia border. Under such conditions infectious disease can spread quickly. The IRC's Peter Biro followed along and filmed as an IRC medical team vaccinated refugee children against polio and measles. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Kenya | Tags: drought, health, Kenya, Somalia, Dadaab refugee camps, famine |
Posted by Peter.Biro on August 3rd, 2011
While traveling with an IRC medical team that is vaccinating refugee children against polio and measles, I had a chance to get a sense of what life is like for the inhabitants of Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Kenya | Tags: drought, health, Kenya, Somalia, Dadaab refugee camps, famine | 1 Comments
Posted by Milka Choge on July 20th, 2011
Habiba, 29, told me her family was forced to leave because of the insecurity in Somalia and because they had lost livestock they depended on for income to the ongoing drought. In January they had 40 goats but by the end of June only 10 remained. They sold half of them on the way to Dadaab in exchange for money to buy food. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, drought, health, refugee camps, Kenya, Somalia, Dadaab refugee camps, humanitarian aid |
Posted by Milka Choge on July 19th, 2011
I met Madina Aden, a 36-year-old mother of five, with her two sons at the mobile clinic run by the IRC on the outskirts of the Hagadera refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. We were treating newly arrived refugees -- families who had fled drought and insecurity in neighboring Somalia. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, refugees, drought, health, refugee camps, Kenya, Somalia, Dadaab refugee camps, humanitarian aid |
Posted by Emmanuel d'Harcourt on July 6th, 2011
In war-torn and disaster-stricken countries where IRC field teams work, medicines and supplements that can save children from preventable diseases are frustratingly unavailable. But the IRC is addressing this urgent need and helping to ensure that the most common and treatable childhood ailments don’t become a death sentence. more »
Posted in Health, Africa | Tags: children, refugees, health, Malaria, humanitarian aid | 4 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 8th, 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 |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 4th, 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 |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 4th, 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 |
Posted by Yolanda.Barbera on April 25th, 2011
In Africa a child dies of malaria every 45 seconds. The main reason for this is that health facilities are just too far from children's homes. To tackle this problem, the IRC has trained 11,000 villagers in six countries in Africa to treat children in their own communities -- not only for malaria, but also for other deadly conditions. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Uganda | Tags: children, Africa, health, humanitarian, Malaria, World Malaria Day |
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