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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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May 23, 2013
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Education
Posted by The.IRC on January 16th, 2012
Children practice for a student performance at Karakuwa elementary school in the tsunami-wrecked town of Kesennuma, Japan. The IRC and our partner Peace Winds Japan have helped to furnish the school. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Japan | Tags: children, tsunami, education, natural disasters, Peace Winds Japan | 1 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on January 2nd, 2012
Two kindergartners enjoy their serving of “bouillie,” a floury porridge provided every morning at schools in Gasorwe Refugee Camp in Burundi’s eastern province of Muyinga. more »
Posted by Jane Yang on December 30th, 2011
In drought-stricken Turkana, Kenya -- where children were dropping out of school to search for water for their families -- the IRC installed two large storage tanks and started delivering water for the students to carry home. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, drought, hygiene, water, education, Turkana | 2 Comments
Posted by Jen Steele on December 20th, 2011
Jen Steele, IRC education program officer, describes the success of Healing Classrooms, a program that trains teachers working in crisis zones to help traumatized children and creates secure and nurturing learning environments. more »
Posted in Children & Youth | Tags: children, education, Healing Classrooms |
Posted by Ned Colt on December 9th, 2011
Masons put the finishing coat on a new classroom at a school in Baghdad. The IRC is funding rehabilitation of schools and teacher training in much of Iraq. more »
Posted in Iraqi Refugees, Middle East, Iraq | Tags: children, education, schools |
Posted by Ned Colt on December 5th, 2011
During this past summer, the IRC rehabilitated nine schools in northern Pakistan that were damaged or destroyed in the record flooding of 2010. more »
Posted in Pakistan Floods, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: education, Pakistan floods |
Posted by The.IRC on November 29th, 2011
Uwizera Desange teaches fourth grade in an area of the Democratic Republic of Congo that is still being ravaged by violence. "If I didn't come to teach there would be an empty classroom," she says. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: children, education, conflict | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on November 23rd, 2011
A powerful MTV Act guest blog post from Torbertha Torbor, who also spoke eloquently about her journey from refugee to college student at the IRC's Humanitarian and Freedom Award dinners this year. Such a fitting Thanksgiving story. more »
Posted by The.IRC on November 12th, 2011
Photographer Aubrey Wade took this portrait of Anna K. Kolubah, the only female teacher at her school in Liberia's Lofa County. After years of civil war and unrest in Liberia, the IRC is working to get kids back into the classroom. more »
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