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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC's Felix Leger on VOA today t.co/vzvenVNEJ1
May 22, 2013
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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC will provide 70,000 liters of clean water daily--enough potable water for 5,000 people a day to drink, cook and bathe #…
May 22, 2013
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Less than 10 yrs after fleeing Somalia, Amal Kahim Jama & her family became refugees again, in Syria: t.co/wZkmKWqy00 via @AJEnglish
May 22, 2013
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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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Baby Jenny
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on January 12th, 2011
Baby Jenny Alexis was two months old when she was pulled alive from the rubble of her Port-au-Prince home four days after the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake. Thought to be orphaned, Jenny was evacuated to a Southern Florida medical center for urgent treatment. more »
Posted in Resettlement, United States, US - Miami, FL, Haiti | Tags: children, Baby Jenny, humanitarian, resettlement, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 6th, 2010
It's just extraordinary that a two month old infant with serious injuries could survive three days under the rubble, that she would be found and evacuated to the U.S. for medical care, that her parents, informed that she was dead, would keep searching and eventually locate her more »
Posted in Resettlement, US - Miami, FL, Haiti | Tags: refugees, Baby Jenny, humanitarian, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 5th, 2010
The IRC's Melissa Winkler, tweets about the reunion of Baby Jenny and her parents, who arrived from Haiti today. The IRC will aid the family in Miami. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Haiti | Tags: refugees, Baby Jenny, humanitarian, twitter, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters |
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