Around the world, climate change is accelerating life-threatening heat waves. Some communities lack the necessary resources to ensure their safety.

Around the world, more than 45 million children under the age of five experience acute malnutrition annually. Approximately two million will die as a result.

Roughly 1 billion children worldwide are out of school due to school closures related to COVID-19. Children in humanitarian settings face a double crisis as the health emergency disrupts their opportunities to learn, develop and thrive. Ensuring children can continue to learn during the pandemic, no matter their access to technology, must be central to the COVID-19 response in fragile contexts.

The IRC partners with select corporations in the United States and around the globe to support the world’s most vulnerable people through engagement opportunities including workplace giving, volunteer days, and cause-marketing campaigns

Learn the meaning of famine, what causes it, and how we can prevent future famines through early action and humanitarian aid.

IRC staff were on the ground in Poland before the conflict began to monitor the situation and identify where we could be most effective. Go inside our response working with partners in Poland and Ukraine.