Join Generation Rescue
Photo: Gerald Martone/IRC
Welcome to the GenR (Generation Rescue) community!
We are a dynamic, diverse group of young professionals (under 45) who have joined forces to advance the humanitarian work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
As a community, we engage others to support the IRC through advocacy, education, networking and fundraising.
GenR is a force for change!
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How We Help
- GenR advocates on behalf of uprooted people, raising awareness of forgotten humanitarian crises
- GenR volunteers support refugees resettled right in their communities
- GenR raises funds to support the IRC’s work with families uprooted by war or natural disaster
- GenR spreads the word about the IRC and the people who are helped in their journey from harm to home.
- GenR makes a real impact while connecting and having fun
On June 20 at 9:30am ET, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will host a special event in recognition of World Refugee Day. IRC Voice Sarah Wayne Callies will speak about her recent visits to IRC programs for Syrian refugees in Iraq and Jordan.
Working with the IRC, photographer Andrew McConnell spent many months documenting the lives of refugees in eight cities across four continents: "Hidden Lives: The Untold Story of Urban Refugees," goes on public view in New York City on June 21.
I first met Abdallah Ibrahim Yare in Dadaab complex, home to 500,000 refugees, two years ago at the height of the famine in Somalia. He and his family, along with thousands of others, had trekked for days to Kenya in search of food and safety.
At 23, Hamid was in medical school in Canada when war broke out in Syria. Today, he’s a veteran of frontline medicine. He returned to Syria when the war begin and now works at an IRC-supported field hospital in Aleppo.
In The Media
July 25, 2012 | Strong Buzz
GenR Steering Committee | ||
Peter Alderman Christopher Anderson Kavita Bali Brendan Ballou Karen Begley Sarah Booth Arielle Cahill Hassid Helena M. Cornell Eric Fleet | Leigh Fleet Melissa Janis Farah Kathwari Avinash Kaza Andrew Klaber Andrea Louie Cia Moss Tatiana Munoz Elizabeth Novack | Ashley Passik Aimee Saginaw Danielle Sandars Oliver Schulze Andrea Strong Alex Sweet Ty Trippet Atiya Weiss Julie Winner |
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