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VOICES FROM THE FIELD THE IRC BLOG
Water
Posted by Jane Yang on December 30th, 2011
In drought-stricken Turkana, Kenya -- where children were dropping out of school to search for water for their families -- the IRC installed two large storage tanks and started delivering water for the students to carry home. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, drought, hygiene, water, education, Turkana | 2 Comments
Posted by Sinziana.Demian on November 15th, 2011
A child collects drinking water from the first ever clean source in his Congolese village, located on a very remote shore of Kivu Lake accessible only by boat. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, D.R. Congo | Tags: development, health, water, South Kivu |
Posted by The.IRC on November 14th, 2011
$100 can rush clean, fresh water to 200 people whose lives have been uprooted by emergencies such as war, famine or drought. more »
Posted in Health | Tags: drought, emergencies, health, water, war, howtohelp, famine, Rescue Gifts |
Posted by The.IRC on November 3rd, 2011
In this short clip, a teacher in Kenya expresses his hope that children who have been forced to leave school due to the drought will now be able to continue their studies thanks to water delivered by the IRC. more »
Posted by The.IRC on October 31st, 2011
The Forgotten Crisis, a new short film by IRC-UK, documents the scale of the damage caused by the drought in Turkana, Kenya. The film also shows how the IRC is helping communities in need get back on their feet. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: video, drought, water, humanitarian aid, Turkana |
Posted by Makeda Yasenlul on October 28th, 2011
Before the IRC arrived in Buri Lange, Ethiopia, villagers used to get water from a river three hours away. Women, who traditionally fetch water, had to walk over difficult steep terrain with heavy plastic water containers on their backs. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia | Tags: drought, water, humanitarian aid | 3 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on October 21st, 2011
A donkey drinks at an IRC trough in Somalia's Galmudug state. Hundreds of thousands of animals have already died in the ongoing drought. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Somalia | Tags: drought, water, natural disasters, Photo of the Day |
Posted by The.IRC on October 20th, 2011
Two children fetching water at an IRC-installed water tap in Darussalam village in central Somalia. The IRC is building and repairing wells, hand pumps and pipelines and training community volunteers in hygiene. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Somalia | Tags: children, drought, water, natural disasters, Photo of the Day |
Posted by stefanie.pfeil on September 21st, 2011
When a crisis strikes, maintaining vital services, such as education, can be incredibly challenging. Nowhere is this more true than in Turkana, a region of northwest Kenya which is suffering from one of the worst droughts of our time. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Kenya | Tags: children, drought, water, education, natural disasters, Turkana | 2 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on September 15th, 2011
Women collect fresh water at the Kobe refugee camp in southeastern Ethiopia. The IRC is providing water and sanitation services in camps in Ethiopia that collectively serve 82,000 refugees from the ongoing drought. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia | Tags: Ethiopia, drought, sanitation, water, Somali refugees, humanitarian aid, famine, Photo of the Day |
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