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May 23, 2013
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Thanks to your support, we made @Klout's list of the world's most influential NGOs on social media: t.co/Abc4bTjEY0 #KloutPulse
May 23, 2013
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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC's Felix Leger on VOA today t.co/vzvenVNEJ1
May 22, 2013
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RT @So_Jo1: @theIRC will provide 70,000 liters of clean water daily--enough potable water for 5,000 people a day to drink, cook and bathe #…
May 22, 2013
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Less than 10 yrs after fleeing Somalia, Amal Kahim Jama & her family became refugees again, in Syria: t.co/wZkmKWqy00 via @AJEnglish
May 22, 2013
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Natural Disasters
Posted by Ned Colt on December 16th, 2011
Farmers who lost their rice crops in the record floods of 2010, transplant seedlings from an IRC paddy to be replanted in their own fields. more »
Posted in Pakistan Floods, Pakistan | Tags: agriculture, natural disasters, Pakistan floods |
Posted by The.IRC on December 6th, 2011
IRC Voice Jencarlos Canela talks about an IRC-run “child-friendly space” he visited yesterday in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. The IRC makes sure young earthquake survivors have safe places where they can play, learn and heal. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Caribbean, Haiti | Tags: children, natural disasters, Haiti, earthquake, Jencarlos Canela, child-friendly Space | 1 Comments
Posted by Jane Yang on December 6th, 2011
The Logiels, like many families in remote Turkana, Kenya, have been suffering through the worst drought to hit East Africa in six decades. Read about how the IRC helped save their three-year-old daughter's life. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, drought, health, malnutrition, natural disasters, Turkana |
Posted by George.Rupp on December 2nd, 2011
When the water dries up, when the floods come, when the militants pillage, the IRC is hard at work doing what we do best -- saving lives. Right now, we have an extraordinary opportunity. Special friends of the IRC will match your online donation dollar for dollar -- up to $1.54 million -- through December 31. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Somalia | Tags: drought, natural disasters, humanitarian aid, howtohelp, famine, charitable gift |
Posted by The.IRC on November 28th, 2011
$120 can provide a goat for a disaster-stricken family, providing milk for malnourished children as well as a chance to begin rebuilding their lives. more »
Tags: refugees, natural disasters, howtohelp, Floods, Rescue Gifts |
Posted by Jane Yang on November 25th, 2011
As the sun sets over Dadaab, my IRC colleague Ruth Kimaathi happily takes time out after a long day to sip tea and talk with me about her job: counseling courageous women who have endured conflict and famine in Somalia. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Domestic Violence, Africa, Kenya | Tags: 16 Days, domestic violence, drought, Sexual Violence, natural disasters, Dadaab refugee camps, Somali refugees, women, famine |
Posted by Ned Colt on November 19th, 2011
Farmers in Sindh, Pakistan who lost their livelihoods to devastating floods last year rebuild a damaged culvert that brings water to their rice paddies. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Asia, Pakistan | Tags: agriculture, natural disasters, Pakistan floods, cash for work |
Posted by The.IRC on November 2nd, 2011
Jeanne Helene Victor is one of a team of volunteers trained by the IRC to support survivors of sexual violence in their communities in Haiti. "When we intervene in cases of domestic violence, people listen to us," she says. more »
Posted in Women, Caribbean, Haiti | Tags: Sexual Violence, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters, women |
Posted by The.IRC on October 28th, 2011
Thailand's capital, Bangkok, is now threatend by widespread flooding after three months of heavy monsoon rains that devastated rural communities to the north. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Asia, Thailand | Tags: natural disasters, Floods, Photo of the Day |
Posted by The.IRC on October 27th, 2011
After three months of steady monsoon rains, Thailand is battling its worst flooding in 50 years. The IRC is working with local authorities to assist some of the poorest people in the country to be affected by the devastation. more »
Posted in Emergency Response, Asia, Thailand | Tags: refugees, Burmese refugees, natural disasters, humanitarian aid, flooding |
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