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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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Posted by The.IRC on April 18th, 2012
The IRC's Elizabeth Pender tells CNN how the IRC is helping women and girls who have fled brutal fighting in Sudan's Nuba Mountains only to experience sexual violence in an overflowing refugee camp in South Sudan. Watch video. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Gender based Violence, Women, Africa, South Sudan | Tags: emergencies, health, Sexual Violence, conflict, women, humanitarian aid, South Kordofan |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on April 17th, 2012
The IRC's Sophia Jones-Mwangi writes from western Chad about IRC nutrition and health programs that are helping people who are coping with drought there. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Health, Sahel Crisis, Africa, Chad | Tags: drought, malnutrition, Sahel crisis, Chad_Sahel |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on April 16th, 2012
The IRC is scaling up nutrition programs and medical assistance in response to the worsening drought and food crisis in Africa's arid Sahel region. The IRC's Sophia Jones-Mwangi is posting updates from western Chad. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Emergency Response, Health, Sahel Crisis, Africa, Chad | Tags: children, health, malnutrition, humanitarian aid, emergency reponse, Sahel crisis, Bahr el Gazal, measles, Chad_Sahel |
Posted by The.IRC on April 16th, 2012
Actress Rashida Jones stopped by NBC's "Today Show" this morning to talk about the fourth season of her NBC comedy “Parks and Recreation,” her upcoming film, and her work as an IRC Voice. more »
Posted in Resettlement, United States, US - San Diego, CA, Thailand | Tags: refugees, health, resettlement, humanitarian aid |
Posted by Jane Yang on April 12th, 2012
The son of subsistence farmers from southern Somalia, Ahmed Hassan Osman is pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor while he works with the IRC to help other Somali refugees in Kenya. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Health, Humanitarian Aid, Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: aid workers, drought, health, refugee camps, Dadaab refugee camps, Somali refugees, nutrition |
Posted by The.IRC on March 29th, 2012
The International Rescue Committee is deploying an emergency team to Mali to set up urgent humanitarian aid programs as drought ravages the country and flaring violence and political instability force thousands from their homes. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Sahel Crisis, Africa, Mali | Tags: drought, health, sanitation, water, emergency response, humanitarian aid, Mali, Sahel | 6 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on March 28th, 2012
Fatuma, a widow, sells salt, sugar, rice and other staples from her roadside stall in the Galkacyo district of central Somalia. Poor access to clean water in her community ended in tragedy for her daughter. more »
Posted in Health, Women, Africa, Somalia | Tags: drought, Sexual Violence, water, women, Wake Up | 1 Comments
Posted by Ned Colt on March 22nd, 2012
Villagers in southern Pakistan install a new pump the IRC supplied after the community's water sources were contaminated during 2010's record floods. more »
Posted in Health, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: health, water, natural disasters, World Water Day |
Posted by Sophia Jones-Mwangi on March 22nd, 2012
On World Water Day, a photo share from Zimbabwe: 67-year-old widow Ellah Bhasira smiles when she talks about her new well. “Before I had this well, it was hard,” says Ellah. “I had no access to safe water." more »
Posted by Sinziana.Demian on March 13th, 2012
For Emelda Musabyimana, life changed a few months ago when the IRC asked her to play an active role in a health project rolling out in her village. “Maman Emelda" has an important duty to perform: record and transmit all births and deaths in the 15 households she is assigned to survey. more »
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