A reservoir for drinking water takes form in Afghanistan's Paktia Province. The project is slated for completion next July.

Migrant children shell mussels on the docks of Bangkok from dawn to dusk to make a living. 

Actress and IRC Voice Rashida Jones, with IRC medic supervisor El Noon (right), talks to Burmese refugees in the Tham Hin refugee camp, Thailand.  More photos.>>

A girl washes prior to going to tent school in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul. Hundreds of one room schools have opened this year to provide children across Afghanistan access to an education for the first time.

Nipaphun Torsound, who runs the IRC program that helps treat mental disorders in the refugee camps on the Thailand-Myanmar border, shows a drawing made by a patient as part of the program’s art therapy.

Nigel Jenkins, IRC country director in Afghanistan