Second-grader Ekiru Eyanae demonstrates the proper way to wash hands. The IRC is delivering water to his school in drought-stricken Turkana, Kenya -- bringing students who had dropped out to search for water for their families back into the classroom.

The gaunt face of baby Minhaj Gedi Farah came to signify the plight of thousands of malnourished children fleeing famine-devastated Somalia. Today Minhaj is the picture of health, thanks to dedicated doctors and nurses at an IRC hospital.

In Dadaab in northeastern Kenya, the IRC gives fortified food to malnourished young children whose families are fleeing drought and famine in Somalia.

Dahiro Ibrahim Ahmed fled the drought and arrived in Kenya with her eight children. The IRC helps protect refugee women like Dahiro from abuse and sexual violence during times of crisis.

The Logiels, like many families in remote Turkana, Kenya, have been suffering through the worst drought to hit East Africa in six decades.

Two children fetching water at an IRC-installed water tap in Darussalam village in central Somalia.