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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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@IRCPress You've been quoted in my #Storify story "Crisis in Darfur, 10 Years On" t.co/guLOti8F02
May 21, 2013
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RT @IRCPress: Race against time to aid new #Darfur #refugees in Chad before rains begin: t.co/z6eDBFeR1I
May 21, 2013
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Posted by Tatenda Gonye on March 10th, 2011
Imagine if tomorrow people in the town where you live started getting suddenly and violently ill. You don’t know what’s wrong or how to help them. People are dying, sometimes within hours, because there’s no treatment available. And then the disease spreads to neighboring communities because no one knows how to stop it. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, Zimbabwe | Tags: aid worker blogs, health, humanitarian, sanitation, water, cholera, typhoid, Zimbabwe |
Posted by The.IRC on January 5th, 2011
The IRC has worked in partnership with government agencies to rehabilitate water and sanitation systems at health clinics and youth centers and built latrines, showers, and safe water points in settlements for displaced people. more »
Posted in Health, Caribbean, Haiti | Tags: health, humanitarian, hygiene, sanitation, water, Haiti Earthquake, cholera |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on November 3rd, 2010
The unsanitary conditions in Port-au-Prince's tent settlements and slums are ripe for the spread of cholera. The IRC's Susana Ferreira shared these photos of our environmental health team treating water in camps where people don't have a safe supply. more »
Posted by melissa.winkler on March 3rd, 2010
The IRC’s Melissa Winkler is in Haiti to help earthquake survivors tell their stories and to document the IRC’s emergency work. She shared these photos from the shanty towns of Port-au-Prince, where a high concentration of people, paltry or non-existent sanitation and the buildup of waste pose a massive health threat. more »
Posted in Health, Haiti | Tags: health, humanitarian, Melissa Winkler, sanitation, Haiti Earthquake, natural disasters |
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on October 27th, 2008
Here are some new photos from Myanmar from Anne C. Richard, the IRC's vice president for government relations and advocacy. Anne recently returned from a visit to the Irawaddy Delta region, where the IRC has been assisting communities that were among those hit hardest by Cyclone Nargis. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Asia, Myanmar | Tags: refugees, Anne Richard, cyclone, Cyclone Nargis, humanitarian, sanitation, water |
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