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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
VOICES FROM THE FIELD THE IRC BLOG
Chad
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on February 15th, 2012
Over 80,000 Chadians who had been working in Libya returned home during 2011 in the wake of violence that erupted in the North African country a year ago. The IRC provided emergency medical care for migrants who arrived weak and sick after traveling more than 300 miles across the desert. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Libya, Chad | Tags: health, emergency response, humanitarian aid, Arab Spring |
Posted by melissa.winkler on August 23rd, 2011
Tamam, an IRC health manager in Chad, sent on these images of a recent sandstorm that hit Bahai -- a desert outpost where we aid refugees from Darfur. They really show the remote and extreme conditions in which IRC staff sometimes work in order to bring humanitarian aid to people who need it the most. more »
Posted in Darfur Refugees, Africa, Chad | Tags: Bahai, photos, Darfur, Chad, humanitarian aid, Darfuri refugees |
Posted by The.IRC on March 30th, 2010
Guest blogger Brenna O’Rourke is an IRC intern in Chad, where the IRC is providing health care and other essential services to 58,000 Darfuri refugees and local communities. We also reach out to men and boys to change attitudes that foster violence against women. more »
Posted by The.IRC on June 18th, 2009
The IRC was founded in 1933 at the suggestion of which famous refugee and Nobel Laureate? Find out when you take our World Refugee Day quiz honoring refugees — their incredible accomplishments, histories, and life stories. more »
Posted in Chad | Tags: refugees, World Refugee Day, humanitarian | 2 Comments
Posted by joanne.offer on January 14th, 2009
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. And in this case it’s entirely true. In the bottle on the left, is water taken straight from Lake Cariari near Bahai in eastern Chad. On the right, is water taken from the lake that’s been filtered, treated and chlorinated by the IRC’s water treatment plant in nearby Oure Cassoni camp for Darfuri refugees. Which one would you rather drink? more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Africa, Chad, South Sudan | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, water, Darfur | 6 Comments
Posted by joanne.offer on October 27th, 2008
Posted in Health, Women, Africa, Chad | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Chad, midwife, midwives |
Posted by joanne.offer on October 24th, 2008
Posted in Health, Africa, Chad | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Chad |
Posted by joanne.offer on October 23rd, 2008
Posted in Children & Youth, Health, Darfur Refugees, Africa, Chad | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Chad |
Posted by joanne.offer on October 22nd, 2008
Posted in Darfur Refugees, Humanitarian Aid, Africa, Chad | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Chad |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on February 8th, 2008
Posted in Africa, Chad, Kenya, Liberia | Tags: refugees, Angelina Jolie, Antonio Guterres, humanitarian, un, United Nations | 1 Comments
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