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Helping Burmese students learn


Burmese students at the Hsa Mu Htaw learning center. Suttida Lalamo (third from the left) said that she wants to stay in Thailand and become fluent in the Thai language. (Photo: Peter Biro/IRC)

A new kind of justice

Pue Htee Tae, who heads the traditional justice system in Mae La camp, talks to two young offenders. Photo: Peter Biro.

Pue Htee Tae, who heads the traditional justice system in Mae La camp, talks to two young offenders.
(Photo: Peter Biro/IRC)

Inside our work in Afghanistan

Submitted by Ned Colt on February 12, 2012 - 4:06am
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February 12, 2012

Having endured decades of conflict and frequent natural disasters, Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. The IRC focuses on emergency preparedness and response as well as longer term development. Currently working in seven of the country’s 34 provinces, the IRC’s staff is 98% Afghan.
 

A new home in the time of need

Children play in the yard of Best Friends School. (Photo: Peter Biro/IRC)

By Peter Biro

Following drought crisis, getting food to hungry Afghans

KABUL, Afghanistan - 02 Feb 2012 -  

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is moving into Afghanistan’s northwest Badghis province, to provide essential humanitarian aid to families in dire need. Badghis, on the border with Turkmenistan, is in the grip of a severe drought, which has left much of the population without enough food.  And the costs for what food there is are climbing. Prices for staples like wheat have increased by as much as 86% in the past year. 

Grain means survival

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Ned Colt

Grain is at the center of life for most farmers in Pakistan. The International Rescue Committee is working to help the poorest farmers, many of whom are still struggling to recover from the devastating floods of 2010, protect that essential crop. As the IRC’s Ned Colt reports from northern Pakistan, the hope is that the project can be expanded to include thousands more farm families. (Posted January 31, 2012)
 

31 Jan 2012

What next for the IRC in Afghanistan?


January 18, 2012
By Ned Colt

Nigel Jenkins, IRC country director in Afghanistan

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Lives in flux in Afghanistan


January 12, 2012
By Ned Colt

Some of the thousands of Afghans who have received support through the IRC

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JALALABAD, Afghanistan -
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Photo Share: Weighing a baby


January 9, 2012
By Ned Colt
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SINDH PROVINCE, Pakistan -
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This Week's Voices: Worried about Japan


January 6, 2012
By The IRC

The IRC's Shinko Tana presents a shovel and a snow blower -- gifts that represent a donation from the IRC and our partner AAR Japan -- to an official from the tsunami-devastated city of Kamaishi, Japan. Many of the coastal city's  tsunami survivors are spending the winter on snowier high ground.

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