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From the frontlines of the famine -- give a gift that matters
Posted by bob.kitchen on November 16th, 2011
Hear firsthand from the IRC’s emergency response director, Bob Kitchen, how IRC Rescue Gifts are saving lives whenever crises erupt. more »
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Rescue Gift of the Week: Clean Water
Posted by The.IRC on November 14th, 2011
$100 can rush clean, fresh water to 200 people whose lives have been uprooted by emergencies such as war, famine or drought. more »
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One house, three bedrooms, 24 kids
Posted by Ned Colt on November 3rd, 2011
This young boy is one of more than two dozen children living in a three-bedroom home still under construction near Tripoli, Libya. The IRC is helping families like theirs who fled violence in their hometowns in northern Libya. more »
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Japan’s hardest hit areas slow to recover
Posted by Shinko Tana on May 24th, 2011
Cut off by the tsunami, people on Oshika peninsula in Japan struggle without fresh food and basic supplies. more »
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Japan's tsunami: Impressions of a city that 'stood no chance'
Posted by Shinko Tana on May 10th, 2011
Driving along the Japanese coast, you immediately see the scope of the destruction that followed the earthquake and the tsunami. It's far greater than pictures can convey. Amazingly, some houses are still standing, but as you get closer you can see that only their exterior walls are left -- the rooms inside were completely washed away. more »
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Haitians helping Haitians as eviction looms
Posted by Robyn Kerr on April 26th, 2011
The majority of the nearly 700,000 earthquake survivors in Haiti who are still displaced are living on private land -- and they can’t stay there forever. While the international community plays an important role in advocating for their needs as the country rebuilds, ordinary Haitians are already helping their fellow citizens. more »
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Quoted: "Grave" violations of humanitarian law in Libya
Posted by The.IRC on March 23rd, 2011
"As coalition airstrikes continue, little is known about the humanitarian situation in Libya, although there are many reports that civilians are being used as human shields," says Gillian Dunn, the IRC’s director for emergency response. more »
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Video: On the ground in Libya
Posted by The.IRC on March 4th, 2011
As people continue to flee the crisis in Libya, the IRC's Alan Manski is on the ground on the Libya-Tunisia border. He sent this footage today as 10,000 people walked from the border to a transit camp. more »
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Five years after Hurricane Katrina
Posted by The.IRC on August 27th, 2010
Photographer Jim Stawniak was on hand in fall 2005 when two families who lost homes to Hurricane Katrina -- Lola Freeman's from New Orleans and Vu Lam's from Biloxi, Mississippi -- moved into the new apartments the IRC found for them in Atlanta. more »
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"Desperate" situation in flood-ravaged Pakistan
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 5th, 2010
New photos from IRC staff members who are on the ground providing aid to victims of the worst flooding in Pakistan’s modern history. At least 1,400 people have been killed and three million people have been affected by the devastating monsoon rains. more »
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