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A woman awaits a checkup at an IRC clinic inside #Syria. t.co/KYCuHf1zWA Photo: Peter Biro/IRC t.co/qptp52tHvi
May 23, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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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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Children
Posted by The.IRC on October 11th, 2011
A teacher walks his students through a math problem at the Zelemai primary school in Lofa, Liberia's northernmost county, The IRC educates over 16,000 Liberian children and youth. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Africa, Liberia | Tags: children, education, Photo of the Day |
Posted by The.IRC on October 3rd, 2011
Children attending Rushege primary school in Tongo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, play a football match against a rival school. more »
Posted in Education, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: children, education, conflict, Photo of the Day |
Posted by The.IRC on September 23rd, 2011
A boy arrives outside his home in a settlement on the outskirts of the eastern town of Jalalabad. Devastated by decades of conflict and natural disasters, Afghanistan is the poorest country in Asia. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Asia, Afghanistan | Tags: children, conflict, humanitarian aid, Photo of the Day |
Posted by stefanie.pfeil on September 21st, 2011
When a crisis strikes, maintaining vital services, such as education, can be incredibly challenging. Nowhere is this more true than in Turkana, a region of northwest Kenya which is suffering from one of the worst droughts of our time. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, drought, water, education, natural disasters, Turkana | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on September 20th, 2011
"I’m very pleased about our independence. My future hopes and dreams are that I want my children to be educated. I’d like them to have a plot of land -- and one day I hope that Patricia will even become the President as well as get married!" more »
Posted in Post conflict, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: children, aid workers, South Sudan, education, quoted |
Posted by The.IRC on September 20th, 2011
A child counts out a math lesson on an abacus in a school in Kalemie, a town on the western shore of Congo's Lake Tanganyika. An estimated 31% of school-age children in Congo have never set foot in a classroom. more »
Posted in Education, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: children, education, Photo of the Day |
Posted by Milka Choge on September 19th, 2011
One of the places hit hardest by the drought is the remote and arid Turkana North area of Kenya. Here I met some courageous mothers who had walked for hours to IRC clinics to find help for their malnourished children. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, drought, health, hunger, malnutrition, Kenya, humanitarian aid, Turkana North | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on September 15th, 2011
UNICEF Television reports on the progress of 3-year-old Somali refugee Aden. Little Aden arrived at a refugee camp in Kenya severely malnourished and was rushed to the IRC's nutrition stabilization center. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: children, drought, health, malnutrition, Somali refugees, humanitarian aid, famine, UNICEF, Aden Abdallah Ibrahim |
Posted by The.IRC on September 14th, 2011
The IRC is partnering with the UK-based charity Bidna Capoeira to teach capoeira — a challenging Afro-Brazilian sport and art form — to at-risk children in the West Bank. Proponents say it engenders a positive philosophy and outlook on life—one that is based on respect for the self and others. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Middle East, West Bank and Gaza Strip | Tags: children, education, Photo of the Day, Capoeira, West Bank, Bidna Capoeira, Palestinian Territories |
Posted by The.IRC on September 12th, 2011
Alinga Ekuru, 35, walked four hours from her drought-stricken village to reach an IRC clinic where her two-year-old daughter was treated for malnutrition. Alinga has been relying on milk from relatives' goats to feed her family. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, drought, health, hunger, Kenya, nutrition, humanitarian aid, Photo of the Day, Turkana, national disasters | 1 Comments
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