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VOICES FROM THE FIELDTHE IRC BLOG
World Humanitarian Day 2011
Humanitarian aid workers who are providing protection for people displaced by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Photo: Gerald Martone/IRC
NEW YORK -
Today is World Humanitarian Day -- a celebration of people helping people.
Every day humanitarian aid workers help millions of people around the world. Sitting here at my computer in the International Rescue Committee's New York HQ office, I am in awe of my IRC colleagues and our partners and peers in the field. They persevere through unimaginable circumstances in order to save lives and build futures.
IRC humanitarian affairs director Gerald Martone calls aid work "the world's most impossible job." Last year in honor of World Humanitarian Day he wrote:
"It is an impossible and unrelenting call to action. I remember one of my colleagues telling me that the job of an aid worker reminded him of those trick birthday candles. You just can’t blow them out."
I think Gerry's tribute says it all...
I hope you will post your own message of support for humanitarian workers around the world in the blog comments below, on the IRC Facebook page, or as a reply to @theIRC on Twitter.
If you'd like to learn more about World Humanitarian Day and watch video profiles of aid workers, visit the United Nations' World Humanitarian Day website.
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Remembering my very special
Submitted by Alison Morrant (not verified) on August 19, 2011 - 1:27pm.
Remembering my very special sister-in-law and friend Julie Morrant who was killed in an accident in Bosnia in 1996 whilst delivering aid for the IRC. All aid workers around the world are true heroes in my eyes.
How lovely to see somebody
Submitted by Linda Harris (not verified) on October 21, 2011 - 10:41am.
How lovely to see somebody thinking about Julie Morrant. I went to Tiffin Girls School with Julie.( My maiden name was Titchener,and I believe either Richard or Tim might have known one of my brothers so might remember my name)
So often I think about Julie and think of her smiling face and things that we laughed at. I think of her reciting a poem " all along the south coast" and tales of her karting. When I went to her funeral service I was amazed to hear about all the good work she had been doing when her life was so tragically cut short.
So to you, Alison Morrant, I would like you and her family to know that it's not just family thinking of her, but old friends too. Every year I think of her on her Birthday and it will be the same this year. What a special person she was.
Here's to you Julie. Love Linda Harris (nee Titchener)
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