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VOICES FROM THE FIELD THE IRC BLOG - Jalozai
Jalozai
Posted by Ned Colt on May 10th, 2012
More than 5,000 children displaced by fighting along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan are finding support and stability in schools run by the IRC. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Education, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: children, IDPs, education, Jalozai, Healing Classrooms, Internally displaced, Right to Play |
Posted by Ned Colt on May 4th, 2012
The IRC has been registering tens of thousands of Pakistanis who’ve fled renewed fighting between Pakistani troops and militants near the Afghan border. In all, close to a half million people have passed through the Jalozai camp since January, registering to ensure they receive vital humanitarian aid. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Post conflict, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: refugees, conflict, Pakistan, Jalozai, humanitarian aid, registration |
Posted by Ned Colt on May 3rd, 2011
From my perch atop a twenty foot high clay mound, I am surrounded by a sea of dusty white. I’m looking out over the close to thirty thousand tents that comprise the Jalozai IDP Camp outside of Peshawar. For those of you unfamiliar with refugee acronyms, IDP stands for “internally displaced person.” There are an estimated seventy thousand of them at Jalozai. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: humanitarian, IDPs, refugee camps, education, conflict, Pakistan, Jalozai | 4 Comments
Posted by Peter.Biro on March 11th, 2011
With the Cricket World Cup 2011 in full swing, children are playing the game everywhere in Pakistan. I took this photo of a girl wielding a bat during a lunch break at one of the schools run by the IRC in the Jalozai camp near the city of Peshawar. more »
Posted in Children & Youth, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: aid worker blogs, humanitarian, refugee camps, photos, conflict, Cricket World Cup, Pakistan, Jalozai |
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