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Rashida Jones Visits Thai Refugee Camp with the IRC

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Rashida Jones Visits Thai Refugee Camp with the IRC
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July 29, 2011
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Rashida Jones meets with refugees at the Tham Hin camp in Thailand during a recent visit with the International Rescue Committee. The 35-year-old Parks and Recreation star recorded this video while visiting the area to help raise awareness about the humanitarian needs of Burmese refugees.

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After the flood: Photos by Reuters/Adrees Latif and the International Rescue Committee's Peter Biro

At the end of July 2010, Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in its recent history.  One year on, thousands of Pakistanis are still struggling to recover and rebuild their lives.  Photos by Reuters/Adrees Latif and the International Rescue Committee's Peter Biro

27 Jul 2011

Rashida Jones in Thailand

IRC Voice Rashida Jones visits the Tham Hin camp in Thailand, where the International Rescue Committee is the sole provider of health care and drinking water to Burmese refugees who have lived in the camp for years.

25 Jul 2011

Return to Azakhel Camp, a year after the floods


July 22, 2011
By Ned Colt

Some of the handful of Afghan refugees who still live in Pakistan's Azakhel Camp, a year after they survived record floods in Pakistan.

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Return to Azakhel

  • A boy stands in front of stagnant water and debris in a photo from 2010
  • Two women stand outside a tent
  • Flood victim Mir Salam in a picture from a year ago, sits next to his belongings
  • An aerial view of Azakhel showing trees and a few cows, but no houses.
  • Elders at the Camp look over Peter Biro's photos from a year ago.
  • Mir Salam wearing a broad smile
  • Two young girls eating at Azakhel Camp
  • A young boy smiles at the camera
  • Akhtar Muhammad speaks to the IRC about life in Azakhil Camp
  • A mason lays bricks for a future religious school for girls
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A year ago the Azakhel Refugee Camp in western Pakistan was home to thousands of Afghan refugees. Many had lived there their entire lives and had build sturdy mud brick homes. But in August of 2010, the worst flash floods in living memory roared through the camp, washing the homes away. The IRC's Peter Biro documented the conditions with his camera immediately after the waters began to subside. Peter's colleague Ned Colt went back to Azakhel in the summer of 2011 to see what had changed.

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Photo Share: Rashida Jones with the IRC in Thailand


July 14, 2011
By Peter Biro

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

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Muhammad: Behind the scenes with an IRC aid worker (Part ll)


July 8, 2011
By Ned Colt

IRC staffers heading out to conduct an assessment of needs following last year's devastating Pakistan floods

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Transcript: Voices from the field - Insights from Afghanistan

June 6,  2011 -  Bob Kitchen has worked with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in some of the most demanding and dangerous places in the world, including Iraq, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Congo.  He’s directed the IRC’s Afghanistan program since 2009, and he leaves this summer to assume a new post as director of the IRC’s Emergency Response Team. During his last week in Kabul, he spoke with Ned Colt via Skype about his time in Afghanistan and the accomplishments of the country staff there.

What it's like to work in Afghanistan


June 10, 2011
By The IRC

Bob Kitchen, former IRC country director in Afghanistan. He recently left to assume a new post as director of the IRC’s Emergency Response Team.

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Japan’s hardest hit areas slow to recover


May 24, 2011
By Shinko Tana

The Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki lost 74 of its 108 pupils, and 10 of its 13 staff members to the tsunami.

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Help for tsunami survivors with disabilities

Submitted by Kate Sands Adams on May 12, 2011 - 1:59pm
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May 12, 2011

The IRC continues to support the relief efforts of three Japanese aid groups assisting survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.  One of them, the Association for Aid and Relief Japan (AAR), is focusing on assistance to people with disabilities and others who have difficulty accessing humanitarian aid

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