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Photos: At the 'Rally to Restore Sanity'
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on October 30th, 2010
If you joined the throng at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’ on the Washington Mall this morning, you might have caught sight of some of my colleagues. They handed out 10,000 IRC bookmarks to rally-goers in an hour. more »
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Counting on hope
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on October 29th, 2010
Every day my IRC colleagues and I deal with numbers -- big numbers, small numbers, sobering numbers – numbers that add to the sum total of human suffering. But no matter how grim the statistics from the crisis zones where we work, there are other numbers that add up to one thing: hope. more »
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Meet our brightest lights
Posted by The.IRC on October 26th, 2010
They rarely make headlines, but aid workers perform lifesaving deeds every day. We recognize the most outstanding of our colleagues through the annual Sarlo Foundation Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service. Meet this year’s recipients. more »
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Quoted: Affordable housing for refugees in Utah
Posted by The.IRC on October 21st, 2010
Patrick Poulin, executive director of the IRC's Salt Lake City US Programs office, comments on the construction of affordable housing for refugees, the homeless and low-income Utahans in Salt Lake City. more »
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Quoted: "I am a new human being"
Posted by The.IRC on October 8th, 2010
When she arrived in the United States last month, Baghdad native Raeda Fatoohi became the 20,000th refugee to be welcomed by the IRC office in Atlanta. Raeda recently spoke with WABE radio for a story that also featured IRC executive director Ellen Beattie. more »
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Quoted: Making it in Atlanta
Posted by The.IRC on September 29th, 2010
Ellen Beattie, the IRC's executive director in Atlanta, spoke with WABE radio in Atlanta this morning about the courage and endurance of refugees who are struggling to rebuild their lives. more »
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Quoted: Elderly and disabled refugees may lose financial aid
Posted by The.IRC on September 2nd, 2010
Problematic changes in the Supplemental Social Security Income program may cut off the incomes of vulnerable refugees. The IRC’s Bob Carey says the changes run “counter to the humanitarian principles” on which the U.S. accepted the refugees. more »
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Victory! New Refugee World Cup photos
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on June 23rd, 2010
Despite all the excitement building up to the FIFA World Cup 2010, some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s biggest soccer fans were preoccupied with a whole other tournament. more »
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New freedoms and customs -- and connections to home
Posted by Misha Cohen on June 22nd, 2010
Freelance photographer and IRC volunteer Misha Cohen has been telling the story of the Bhutanese Timsina family’s first months in the U.S. in pictures. Since their arrival in the U.S., the Timsina family is able to enjoy freedoms that were stripped from them in Bhutan. more »
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"A nation of refugees"
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on June 18th, 2010
“We are not just a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of refugees”: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at an event in Washington, D.C. marking World Refugee Day. more »
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