This document outlines the IRC Poland Country Program’s procedures for preventing and responding to harm against children. Rooted in national and international legal standards—including Poland’s Act on Preventing Sexual Crimes and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child—it sets out key principles, responsibilities, and behavioral expectations for all IRC staff and affiliates.

The Washington Anti-Trafficking Network (WARN) participated in El Centro de la Raza’s Día de los Muertos event to honor all those who have fought for human rights, social services, and political and environmental justice to shape a better future for the children.

Wizie Eads was linked as a mentor with the Safi family in April 2018 after helping as an Urdu translator for a cultural orientation class. That spring, Wizie and her husband Darwin were spending time with the family when they learned that one member, Safi was walking 4 miles a day, back and forth, to take one of his eight children to elementary school.

The fourth annual, Back to School Bash organized by First Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian in collaboration with numerous community organizations will be held on Saturday, August 10 from 10am-3pm. The event provides refugee families with school aged children an opportunity to pick out backpacks and grade appropriate school supplies, as well as a community lunch.

IRC aid worker in Yemen writes about the heavy toll the two-year war has taken on an entire country, and on the humanitarian agencies struggling to reach those on the brink of starvation.

“When you start doing anything, at first it’s going to be frightening,” Bothina Matar reassures the refugee women she works with in Dallas. She encourages them to strive for a better future—their children’s future—without forgetting their past. “I am trying my best,” Bothina tells them, “and succeeding somehow.”

A family in Boise, Idaho, embraces newcomers from Nairobi and become fast friends. They were connected through an International Rescue Committee program that matches resettled refugees with their new neighbors to help them acclimate to life in America.