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VOICES FROM THE FIELD THE IRC BLOG - Emergency response
Emergency Response
Posted by The.IRC on January 21st, 2011
“We don’t know how long the crisis will last,” says Dr. Folaranmi Ogunbowale, who oversees the IRC’s emergency health care response on the Liberia-Ivory Coast border. “But given the volatile history of this region, we have to be prepared for the worst.” more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Africa, Ivory Coast, Liberia | Tags: refugees, health, humanitarian, conflict, quoted, Ivorian refugees |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on January 12th, 2011
My IRC colleague Susana Ferreira captured some of the sights and sounds of the day as the people of Port-au-Prince marked the first anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Haiti | Tags: video, humanitarian, photos, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters |
Posted by The.IRC on January 12th, 2011
30 camps ... 24,000 medical consultations ... Here are just a few of the numbers that measure the impact of our IRC colleagues working in Haiti. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Haiti | Tags: children, health, humanitarian, water, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters, cholera, women |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on December 30th, 2010
Children in one of the IRC's child friendly spaces in Haiti offer thanks to all our loyal supporters who make the IRC's work possible around the globe. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Caribbean, Haiti | Tags: children, video, humanitarian, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters |
Posted by George.Rupp on December 30th, 2010
Conditions in Haiti are only marginally improved today from what they were when the earthquake struck on January 12, 2010. On a recent visit to Port-au-Prince, I was stunned by the mountains of rubble still waiting to be cleared. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Caribbean, Haiti | Tags: children, health, humanitarian, water, Haiti Earthquake, cholera, natural disaters |
Posted by The.IRC on December 8th, 2010
An IRC medical team is delivering health care services to thousands in southern Sudan who fled Sudanese army bombings on the north-south border last month. The displaced are mostly women and children. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: emergency, health, humanitarian, Southern Sudan, conflict, Sudan |
Posted by Peter.Biro on December 3rd, 2010
It is early morning in Wat Maha Wong, a Buddhist temple overlooking the muddy Moei River on the Thailand side of the border with Myanmar. Hundreds of ragged and exhausted people huddle on straw mats waiting for food and medical care. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Thailand | Tags: refugees, Burmese refugees, emergency, health, humanitarian, water, myanmar, Thailand, photos, conflict | 2 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on November 6th, 2010
IRC communications officer Susana Ferreira has been out with IRC teams in Port-au-Prince today, surveying damage from Hurricane Tomas and speaking with homeless earthquake survivors who rode out the storm in some of the city's fragile tent settlements. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Caribbean, Haiti | Tags: humanitarian, photos, Susana Ferreira, Hurricane Tomas |
Posted by Susana.Ferreira on November 4th, 2010
The wind had already picked up by Thursday morning in Villambetta. It whipped around the tents and plastic tarp-covered shacks in the camp. Groups of children, grinning and oblivious to the worries of the adults, made kites by tying black plastic bags to string, hoisting them into the air. The wind carried them high. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Caribbean, Haiti | Tags: humanitarian, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters, hurricane, Tropical Storm Tomas |
Posted by The.IRC on October 4th, 2010
The IRC wrapped up our successful humanitarian mission in Georgia last week. We deployed emergency teams there in August, 2008, days after tensions between Georgia and Russia over the separatist enclave of South Ossetia escalated into a full-blown military conflict. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Georgia | Tags: emergency, humanitarian, South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia |
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