Lahpai Kah Ra was full of dread when she noticed the large lumps that had appeared on her six-year-old son’s neck.

This past summer, Alexandra Sassoon, a Community Health Promoter Americorps serving with the IRC in NY, held a health promotion workshop for several clients in partnership with Catholic Charities.

Each year, the IRC’s Emergency Watchlist identifies and ranks the countries most at risk for experiencing a new or worsening humanitarian crisis.