As part of the Education in Emergencies: Evidence for Action (3EA) initiative, with start-up funding from Dubai Cares, we worked to develop, provide and evaluate complementary education programs to children enrolled in public schools in Lebanon, Niger and Sierra Leone.

13-year old Zain from Karachi, Pakistan is a student in IRC’s Refugee Youth Summer Academy preparing for school in New York this fall.

Nine people were attacked at a Boise, Idaho apartment complex housing refugee families over the weekend, including six children. The IRC is supporting affected families and others in the community.

The IRC’s integrated network of support for early childhood programming ensures that babies and young children are receiving appropriate health and nutrition, cared for by nurturing and consistent caregivers in a safe and supportive environment, developing essential cognitive and social and emotional skills, and engaging in play and early learning experiences.

In an effort to provide concrete harmonized guidance and tools to critical frontline staff who support working children and their families, the International Rescue Committee, with the support of UNICEF, developed a set of child labor materials to be piloted and used in 2017 by multiple Child Protection agencies in Lebanon and beyond.

In 2015, the IRC in NY began a new program to serve unaccompanied minors as part of a partnership with Heartland Alliance.  Unaccompanied minors are undocumented children who have entered the United States without a parent or legal guardian and then enter the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.  

Ethiopia is suffering from its worst drought in 50 years, affecting more than 10 million people. Here’s how the IRC is providing relief to people in need.

By donating clean, new or like-new winter items, you are supporting newly arrived refugee adults and children as they strive to regain control of their future and thrive in our community.