Together, the IRC and Citi Foundation are helping aspiring young people around the world start their own business. Meet nine entrepreneurs who have benefitted from the Resilient Futures program.

Some 100 people are reported dead and hundreds more injured in a suspected chemical gas attack on Tuesday in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in Syria’s northern Idlib province. Doctors at a hospital supported by the International Rescue Committee in the city of Idlib were able to save the lives of 10 people caught in the attack. 

The IRC’s Economic Recovery and Development Department works with a range of partners to make markets work for our beneficiaries. Our approach recognises that the prosperity of the vulnerable and conflict-affected is closely linked to their ability to engage with the larger market as a whole, stabilising their lives through jobs and income. This approach, where appropriate, works not only to directly support the conflict-affected and most vulnerable, but also those who are able to generate jobs and investment capital, namely processors, wholesalers, retail traders and others.

The focus on innovation is not new for the IRC. The organisation has improvised, taken risks, and found ingenious ways to help our clients since our founding in the 1930s. Innovation is embedded in the IRC’s work, in real time and in response to scarcity and extreme difficulties. The IRC was one of the first agencies to test and then adopt parenting programmes in crisis-affected areas.  During the Ebola crisis in Liberia, the IRC was the first organisation to bring in an anthropologist to create a community-based monitoring system responsive to local customs.  We were also one of the pioneers of Community Care Management health programs, and have now scaled the approach in South Sudan to reach hundreds of thousands of children.  These are just a few of the incredible innovations the IRC has already pioneered in the sector.

Learn how the IRC mobile medical team, headed by Dr. Oleg, are reaching people with critical care across Ukraine.

In 2012 after 60 years of conflict, the Myanmar government signed a ceasefire with Karenni rebel groups. The two sides are now working together for the first time, with support from the International Rescue Committee, bringing medicine and health care to former conflict zones. The IRC's Peter Biro reports from Karenni State in eastern Myanmar (also known as Burma).

The civil war in Sudan has created the largest humanitarian crisis on record. These are the real stories of survivors—and the heroes among them—who risked everything to protect their families and their communities.