“People used to tell me, I wish I had your strength,” Rahima says. “I’ve been through a lot of hardships in my life, even if I fall down a hundred times, I’ll get back up again.”

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

Children in Gaza face war, hunger and trauma. Learn how the IRC provides vital aid and how you can help save lives and restore hope.

The IRC is providing health screenings to hundreds of Iraqi refugees at Al Hol refugee camp in Hassakah governate, north eastern Syria.

Only days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed a swath of the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the International Rescue Committee dispatched an emergency team of relief experts to Louisiana. For the first time in its 73-year history, the organization responded to a humanitarian crisis in the United States. 

Cuts to U.S. aid for Afghanistan threaten essential IRC programs that deliver food, health care, education and critical support to millions in crisis.