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Race against time to aid new Darfur refugees in Chad before rains begin

International Rescue Committee teams in Chad are trucking emergency water supplies into the country’s Tissi region to aid thousands of refugees who fled there in recent months to escape worsening violence in Darfur, Sudan.

Photo Share: Moms graduate, Uganda

Photo: Lydia Good/IRC

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Volunteer health workers give mothers in northern Uganda a lifeline

IRC-trained village health worker Harriet Adokorach (left) with Beatrice Alanyo and her son Bernard. The toddler recovered from malaria after receiving treatment from Harriet. "If Harriet hadn't been there Bernard would have died," says Beatrice.

Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC

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Photo Share: Flood relief in Nigeria

Photo: IRC/CISCOPE

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"Women, rise up"

Members of the Congolese women's collective Femmes Lèves-Toi (Women, Rise Up) 

Photo: Aisha Bain/IRC

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“All I wanted was to be with my mother”

Separated from their parents during election violence in Ivory Coast in 2010, Triphose (center) and her little sister were reunited with them a year later with help from IRC social workers who were tracing missing children.

Photo: IRC

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Saving today for a better tomorrow

Cavine Akello (right) sells traditional pancakes at a market stall in Kitgum, Uganda. An IRC program for young mothers helped her to save enough to open her business.

Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC

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Photos: Surviving camp life in Mogadishu

Photo: Peter Biro/IRC

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Ugandan farmers reclaim killing fields to feed their families

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