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Refugee mother’s dream comes true
With the help of the International Rescue Committee’s dedicated staff in Baltimore, a refugee mother from Myanmar reunites with her son after spending 10 years apart. This was the Mother’s Day gift she had been dreaming of for a decade. Watch the moment when they finally meet again.
- Video
- April 13, 2022
Help us provide reusable cloth masks to refugee families in Los Angeles
Do you know how to sew? The IRC in LA needs your help to provide reusable cloth face masks to refugee families and children in need.
- Announcement
- April 22, 2020
Doha: Refugee. Health Volunteer. Humanitarian.
Twenty-four-year-old Doha Ibrahim Ammouri, a refugee from Syria, lives in Azraq refugee camp in Jordan with her husband and children. She volunteers as a receptionist in the International Rescue Committee’s reproductive health clinic in the camp. Despite a national coronavirus lockdown in Jordan, Doha and her colleagues continue to provide essential medical care—safely.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
2023: A Year With Your Support
This has a been a tough year for so many. But thanks to your support of the International Rescue Committee, thousands of refugees and displaced people in crisis zones around the world have been able to access food, clean water, medical care and safety. Thank you for helping children and families whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
- Video
- May 1, 2024
Reunited at last as the U.S. welcomes more refugees
Sifa, a refugee who escaped violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, had not seen her husband Kakule in 7 years—until now.
- Video
- July 1, 2022
Diala Brisly: Illustrator, Courageous Refugee
Hear from artist, activist and refugee Diala Brisly on her story and her new illustration that embodies the statement, "Refugees are courageous."
- Video
- June 22, 2022
Christine Shevchenko: Prima Ballerina, Courageous Refugee
Christine Shevchenko, a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre, describes how the courage her family showed when fleeing her native Ukraine impacts her life and career today.
- Video
- April 13, 2022
Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee
We are honored that the MacArthur Foundation has selected this program as the winner of its 100&Change competition, a one-time $100 million grant to "make measurable progress toward solving a significant problem of our time." This award allows the IRC and Sesame Street to create what will be the largest early childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response.
- Video
- August 24, 2022
A WIN-WIN: Multi-year flexible funding is better for people and better value for donors
This report by International Rescue Committee (IRC), with support from Development Initiatives (DI), builds on the already strong evidence base for multi-year flexible funding. A comparative analysis of two cash programmes in Somalia funded by DFID and Sida, which draws on data collected using the Systematic Cost Analysis (SCAN) tool developed by IRC with Save the Children and Mercy Corps, provides preliminary indications of quantifiable cost efficiency gains of multi-year funding.
- Report
- June 15, 2020
A WIN-WIN: Multi-year flexible funding is better for people and better value for donors
This report by International Rescue Committee (IRC), with support from Development Initiatives (DI), builds on the already strong evidence base for multi-year flexible funding. A comparative analysis of two cash programmes in Somalia funded by DFID and Sida, which draws on data collected using the Systematic Cost Analysis (SCAN) tool developed by IRC with Save the Children and Mercy Corps, provides preliminary indications of quantifiable cost efficiency gains of multi-year funding.
- Report
- June 15, 2020