Children at the Karakuwa elementary school in the tsunami-wrecked town of Kesennuma, Japan. The IRC and its partner Peace Winds Japan have helped equip the school with furniture and other items.

Children play on swings in tsunami-devastated Ishinomaki, Japan. In an instant, some 3,000 people disappeared when a 30-foot-high wall of water washed over the city on March 11. The International Rescue Commitee's partners are helping survivors in Ishinomaki and other hard-hit communities recover and rebuild.

Due to a continuing shortage of desks, tables and chairs, students at a middle school for girls in northern Pakistan move what refurbished furniture they have to classrooms where it's most needed.

The IRC funded road repairs so that people with disabilities could reach vocational skills programs at Asunaro Home, in the heights above tsunami-devastated Rikuzentakata.