How the IRC and Sesame Street are supporting education and childhood development in crisis-affected areas

Since mid-2013, the International Rescue Committee has promoted community awareness about violence against women, setting up services for survivors and supporting health workers. Dr. Ahmed is one of several key staffers at the IRC-supported health facility in Mogadishu, where the first survivor of sexual violence sought support in February 2014. Since then, the IRC team has helped more than 30 survivors.

There are approximately 5,978 refugees in Shimelba camp. The IRC helps support them all, providing education, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS care, child protection, support for survivors of violence, and water, sanitation and hygiene services.

For over ten years, the International Rescue Committee has provided holistic support to survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, delivering health care, legal assistance and emotional support. Recently, the IRC collaborated with Johns Hopkins and the University of Washington to introduce and evaluate another form of therapy for women in need of additional, specialised support, called Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). Here, Jeannie Annan, the IRC’s director of research and evaluation, answers questions about the therapy and how it is helping women in Congo.

Tahini works as a midwife for the IRC, providing a vital support for women in Yemen.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC), through funding from EEA Grants, will establish 10 Supported Independent Living (SIL) apartments in Athens, with a capacity of 40 places to accommodate asylum seeking unaccompanied children aged 16 years old and above. The IRC will provide quality accommodation and a holistic package of individualized support services to at least 120 UAC over a duration of 33 months. In cooperation with public entities, we will facilitate access of these adolescents to training opportunities and accelerate the referral and transfer of unaccompanied children in Supported Independent Living apartments.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the IKEA Foundation are partnering to support urban refugees and host communities in East Africa to secure livelihood opportunities.

Go inside an IRC clinic in Mogadishu that treats children for acute malnutrition and supports mothers facing the fallout of COVID-19.