With support from the International Rescue Committee, Susan Kayongo is able to run her own salon in Nairobi.

I am Ayesiga Benna. I am a nurse working for the International Rescue Committee in Uganda and I’m on the frontline making sure that the country is ready and able to fight Ebola.

First her family were used as human shields by ISIS. Then they were killed by a coalition airstrike.

This story belongs to Chantal Rutonda Nyamuco, one of more than 500,000 displaced Congolese who have fled the violence that has swept over their country. Chantal, now 29 years old, still does not know what became of her family.

Yasmin Kadi, a singer and actor from Sierra Leone describes why being part of the film meant so much to her.

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

In June 2015, the IRC selected one sub-county comprising three health facility catchment areas to pilot this ‘last mile’ strategy as a sub-set of the larger immunization project. The IRC introduced a smartphone application, or mHealth tool, using tailored CommCare software. The application developed a localized immunization information platform to allow facility-based health care workers to more easily identify and follow up those children that may have missed (or defaulted on) one or more of their vaccination.

It’s one thing to get children who’ve fled war back into school. But it’s another thing to help them continue to learn.

On a sunny Thursday afternoon in Berlin, the sound of children’s laughter reached to the rafters at Tempelhof, the historic former airport of West Berlin. They had gathered there for an afternoon of play to mark the official launch of Berlin Kickt, a unique partnership between the International Rescue Committee, Nike and the organization, buntkicktgut – cross cultural street football leagues. The project brings the unifying power of play and the universal language of soccer to children, including recently arrived refugees in primary schools across Berlin.