Fifteen-year-old Shaimah wants nothing more than a chance to live in peace and finish school. In a refugee camp in Greece, she's found a special place where she can take classes again, and heal from the pain of war with help from her teachers and friends.

After fleeing their home in Damascus, a family restarts their furniture upholstery business with help from the IRC.

In the face of a brutal war—and the anti-refugee agendas pushed by some politicians—resilient Syrians are enduring the unimaginable and generous communities are taking them in. Here are 10 moments from 2016 that gave us a glimpse of the best of humanity.

An English class is much more than an education for traumatized refugee children in Serbia. It’s a lifeline. Meet IRC partners doing pioneering work to help meet these students' psychological needs.

Escalated violence in their native Burundi forced them to flee. For pregnant women, the increased uncertainty for the future is all the more stressful.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC), in partnership with Google and Mercy Corps, has launched RefugeeInfo.eu, a website accessible by mobile phone that provides up-to-date, location-specific information to refugees arriving in Europe.

The IRC’s ‘Hope’ Clinic in Jordan provides critical treatment for uprooted Syrians like Hisham, a 7-year-old refugee battling diabetes.

IRC Voice Morena Baccarin recently traveled to Colombia to meet Venezuelan refugees trying to build new lives far from the violence and economic chaos at home.

When he visited Lesbos, actor Mandy Patinkin helped to rescue a girl in a pink coat. The IRC returned to Lesbos to follow her story.

Fifteen-year-old Samir became separated from his family after his home in Aleppo was attacked. He tells the IRC about his journey to Jordan and his hope to be reunited with his parents.