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Drought in Africa: Join the IRC's briefing from the field on June 27

The IRC's Dr. John Kiogora examines a severely malnourished child in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, where the IRC is assisting Somalis who have fled the region’s worst drought in sixty years.   

Photo: Peter Biro/IRC
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A last-minute Father's Day gift that rescues lives

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Kony 2012: Invisible Children And 7 Other Charities Fighting For Child Soldiers

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Kony 2012: Invisible Children And 7 Other Charities Fighting For Child Soldiers
Date: 
June 13, 2012
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The Huffington Post
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The “Kony 2012” video campaign against Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, was met with fiery reactions across the board after it exploded across social media platforms Wednesday.

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When “home” is a stranger’s house

Jacqueline’s is one of many displaced families forced to flee their homes by violence in South Kivu. Here she washes their clothes in new basins bought with IRC vouchers at a local fair.

Photo: Sinziana Demian/IRC

Starting over in Congo

  • This woman is arranging pagne, a waxed cotton fabric women use for dresses.
  • A staff member checks the IDs of people arriving at the fair.
  • A woman exults when she receives a $75 voucher.
  • A woman carrying her baby on her back looks at a bolt of fabric.
  • A man selects three corrugated metal panels to build a home.
  • A boy gives a vendor a coupon in exchange for a flashlight and batteries.
  • A woman carries a travel bag, a washing basin and a rolled corrugated sheet.
  • Two people carry mattresses they purchased at the fair over their heads.
  • An IRC staff member checks merchandise of visitors who have cashed in coupons.
  • A fair-goer carries bundles of goods home on a motorbike.
  • Vendors exchange the vouchers they have collected for credit with the IRC.
  • A woman with the washing basins she bought at the fair.

Last year, the IRC organized three fairs in Congo’s South Kivu Province, which continues to be marred by insecurity and large population displacements. More than 5,000 families—some who were forced from home by violence, others who have been sharing their homes with the uprooted—exchanged IRC vouchers for basic items they need to rebuild their lives.  The fairs, sponsored by UNICEF, also gave local merchants business, providing an important economic boost to the region.


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Tuungane program unites communities in Eastern Congo to build markets, wells, and hope

Thanks to theTuungane program, a brand new marketplace now stands in a region where before there was no central place for local residents to trade goods.
 

Photo: Dieudonne Bahiga

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Uganda after Kony: Christine Amunu’s Story

Photo: Celine Auma/IRC

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In Kenya's “little Mogadishu,” a precarious life for urban refugees

Eastleigh, a suburb of Nairobi, is known as “little Mogadishu” because of the high concentration of Somali immigrants.

Photo: Peter Biro/IRC
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A harvest of hope in Zimbabwe

A chili farmer in Zimbabwe surveys his fields. With the International Rescue Committee's help, he and other small farmers now have more opportunities to sell what they grow and are better able to provide for their families and expand their businesses.

Photo: Paolo Cernuschi/IRC
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