In Yemen, which has entered its eighth year of war, the IRC delivers lifesaving care through mobile clinics. Spend a typical day with a mobile health team.

In Yemen, which has entered its eighth year of war, the International Rescue Committee delivers lifesaving health care through mobile health clinics. Meet Dr. Mohsen Fadel, a general practitioner who leads the IRC mobile health team in a city in the south of Yemen, and go inside our work. Read more about the IRC's mobile health clinics. 

A health system broken by war leaves Syrians desperate for care. IRC mobile health teams are providing lifesaving care and medication twice a month to remote villages and tent cities across Syria.

All-women teams of medical doctors are braving long distances and treacherous terrain to bring health care to the remotest villages in Afghanistan.

Amid protracted crises in Yemen the IRC's EU-funded mobile medical teams provide respite to displaced families.

Three clowns from the Sweden-based nonprofit organization Clowns Without Borders recently performed for families in northern Jordan, where the IRC operates mobile health clinics and provides other support for Syrian refugees and Jordanians in need.

An International Rescue Committee aid worker (his identity obscured for security reasons) takes us inside Areesha displacement camp, northeast Syria. Here 43,000 people who fled ISIS are crowded into a camp built for less than half that number.  Some 25,000 people are living on one piece of bread a day. Others have nothing to eat. The IRC is responding with emergency meals, which we have distributed to 5,000 families.

Child Health at the International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee is a leading humanitarian agency dedicated to the health and survival of the most vulnerable people around the world. From the earliest stages of emergencies through recovery, we provide essential services.

Conflict and crises weaken health systems, deplete essential health resources, and consequently lead to staggeringly high rates of maternal and newborn mortality. Pregnancy and childbirth do not stop in times of crisis, and neither should access to high-quality, life-saving care. Many of these deaths can be prevented with accessible and cost-effective interventions, yet these often remain under resourced and underdelivered in humanitarian settings, where heath systems are disrupted, and human resources are insufficient.