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Photo Share: Playing cricket in Pakistan


March 11, 2011
By Peter Biro
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Quoted: Military-led aid projects doomed to fail in Afghanistan


January 28, 2011
By The IRC
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Quoted: “We can’t get back all that we lost"


December 7, 2010
By The IRC

Famer Obaid Ullah with wheat seeds he received from the IRC.

Photo: Selena Marr/The IRC

Race against time

  • Farmers including Obaid Ullah, 44, (center) happily load their wheat seeds onto a cart to take them to their fields for planting the next day. Failure to plant would mean another year without crops, food and income.
  • Haji Khan, 50, (right) helps Obaid Ullah (center) load a bag of wheat seeds onto a wheelbarrow. Khan says that he had carefully saved seeds from previous crops, but that they had all washed away in the floods. "These seeds make me very happy," he says.
  • Loading wheat seeds onto a cart to take to home. The IRC is also providing Khan, Ullah and other farmers in the area with 12,000 bags of fertilizer.
  • Azra (in red) and her friends watch as their fathers collect the wheat seeds for planting. These seeds will grow into much needed crops that will provide income for many families, Azra says with a hopeful smile.
  • Obaid Ullah with his wheat seeds.
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Farmers in flood ravaged Pakistan are in a race against time to plough fields and sow seeds before the end of the winter planting season.  Failure to plant will mean another year without crops, food and income. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the IRC is rushing to provide some 3,500 farmers with 300 tons of seeds.

 
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For farmers in flood ravaged Pakistan a race against time

By Selena Marr
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan - 06 Dec 2010 -  

Race against time

  • Farmers including Obaid Ullah, 44, (center) happily load their wheat seeds onto a cart to take them to their fields for planting the next day. Failure to plant would mean another year without crops, food and income.
  • Haji Khan, 50, (right) helps Obaid Ullah (center) load a bag of wheat seeds onto a wheelbarrow. Khan says that he had carefully saved seeds from previous crops, but that they had all washed away in the floods. "These seeds make me very happy," he says.
  • Loading wheat seeds onto a cart to take to home. The IRC is also providing Khan, Ullah and other farmers in the area with 12,000 bags of fertilizer.
  • Azra (in red) and her friends watch as their fathers collect the wheat seeds for planting. These seeds will grow into much needed crops that will provide income for many families, Azra says with a hopeful smile.
  • Obaid Ullah with his wheat seeds.
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Farmers in flood ravaged Pakistan are in a race against time to plough fields and sow seeds before the end of the winter planting season.  Failure to plant will mean another year without crops, food and income. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the IRC is rushing to provide some 3,500 farmers with 300 tons of seeds.

 
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Farmers load wheat seeds onto a cart to take to their fields for planting. Before they can sow the seeds the farmers must clear their land of debris, silt and sand. Failure to plant will mean another year without crops, food and income.

Photo Share: Shenaz and her baby


December 2, 2010
By The IRC
Photo: Selena Marr

Pakistan after the floods

  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Children try a damaged hand pump in their village.
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: International Rescue Committee water tanker
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Children fill drinking water containers
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Three women living in tents
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: A widow, Tasleem, speaks about her family's hardships
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Tamala, a mother of eight, in her temporary kitchen
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: This girl has not been able to return to school
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: This boy is suffering from a skin infection after the floods
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Two girls collecting water in their village
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The IRC is providing lifesaving aid to families who lost their homes and livelihoods to the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history.  Although flood waters have receded in the northwestern Nowshera district and other hard-hit areas, the situation remains desperate.

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Pakistan: Surviving with tears

Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan - 24 Nov 2010 -  

Pakistan after the floods

  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Children try a damaged hand pump in their village.
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: International Rescue Committee water tanker
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Children fill drinking water containers
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Three women living in tents
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: A widow, Tasleem, speaks about her family's hardships
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Tamala, a mother of eight, in her temporary kitchen
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: This girl has not been able to return to school
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: This boy is suffering from a skin infection after the floods
  • Nowshera, Pakistan: Two girls collecting water in their village
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The IRC is providing lifesaving aid to families who lost their homes and livelihoods to the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history.  Although flood waters have receded in the northwestern Nowshera district and other hard-hit areas, the situation remains desperate.

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Tamala stands in front of her temporary kitchen and explains that she is struggling to find enough food for her family and is worried for her children’s future.

Thailand: Midwives saving lives


November 22, 2010
By Peter Biro

Tanaw, 27, who uses only one name, is one of 15 midwives in the Tham Hin camp. “Part of my job is to make sure that pregnant women know how to take care of their children, before and after birth,” she says. “I talk to them about the nutrients they need and how to avoid infections.”

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Families in flood ravaged Pakistan face a tough winter ahead

A young girl and her brother return home to their destroyed village in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and face a difficult winter in the coming months. Photo: The IRC
A young girl and her brother return home to their destroyed village in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. 
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IRC comes to aid of Myanmar cyclone victims

After Cyclone Giri

  • Houses in Myanmar destroyed by Cyclone Giri
  • Cyclone victims find shelter and a meal in a school in Myanmar
  • People are using water buffalo carts and boats to travel after Cyclone Giri
  • Clycline Giri damaged this village in Myanmar's water supply
  • A dam damaged by Cyclone Giri in Myanmar
  • Cyclone Giri destroyed this school in Myanmar
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The IRC is assisting communities affected by Cyclone Giri, which struck the northwestern coast of Myanmar in late October. According to the government, some 71,000 people were displaced and over 14,000 homes destroyed.

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Cyclone Giri damaged water systems when it struck Myanmar
Cyclone Giri contaminated water supplies and destroyed water systems like the one in this village in Rakhine State. IRC water and sanitation specialists are setting up emergency water treatment and distribution units.
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After Cyclone Giri

Submitted by Kate Sands Adams on November 4, 2010 - 6:22pm
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November 4, 2010

The IRC is assisting communities affected by Cyclone Giri, which struck the northwestern coast of Myanmar in late October. According to the government, some 71,000 people were displaced and over 14,000 homes destroyed.

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