An interview with Jessica Blake, IRC in Denver Economic Empowerment VISTA.

Within 72 hours of global emergencies, IRC delivers healthcare, water, protection, and economic support to 123 million displaced people worldwide.

"I want to advocate for the people I work with so they have the opportunity to live with dignity and wellbeing. I want them to experience joy and safety. All the things we consider to be basic human rights.”

Afghans continue to arrive in the United States, where they seek safety and stability for themselves and their families.

Two men resettled under the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program to support Afghan allies discuss their fears for those left behind.

The geography of poverty is changing. Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in places characterized by fragility and violent conflict: by 2030, 85 percent of the extreme poor—some 342 million people—will live in fragile and conflict-affected states.1 Yet just one in five fragile states are on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).2 Meaningful progress on the goal of reducing global extreme poverty requires meeting the development needs of vulnerable populations in fragile contexts; but assistance in these contexts has traditionally been limited to short-term humanitarian aid, ill-equipped to address underlying development challenges. World Bank leadership, staff, and shareholders recognize that protracted crises and associated mass displacement and chronic extreme hunger, as well as threats from sudden-onset emergencies such as climate disasters and pandemics, threaten development progress. Driving progress in these complex environments is the only way that the World Bank will meet its twin goals of reducing global poverty and improving shared prosperity, and address the underlying drivers of some of the world’s most protracted crises.

Six Afghans who recently arrived in the United States from Kabul with their families describe their journeys and hopes for their new lives.