The IRC and the LEGO Foundation’s Play Well project launch Dunga, a new local-language radio show to help children and caregivers learn through play across Tanzania and Uganda

The program, called Play Well, creates and adapts play-based social-emotional learning (SEL) content to be delivered via radio, phone-based audio services, and other digital platforms where internet-access is limited, providing modular content that promotes playful learning at home.

Every Saturday, on his day off, Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman who works with the International Rescue Committee as an advocate for survivors of human-trafficking, volunteers to work with a group of teenage boys separated from their families at the United States border.

Kurdish-Syrian refugees, Maasom and Hiba were living in a refugee camp in Iraq when their daughter Nasrin was born. She seemed like a normal, healthy baby … until her skin turned blue. They brought Nasrin to England, where she underwent surgery for a life-threatening heart condition. “When Nasrin got treated, it was a wonderful feeling,” says Maasom. “We can’t believe that she has recovered.”