The International Rescue Committee spoke with writer, Lena who's in Kyiv, Ukraine for International Women's Day. The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) - of which the IRC is a member - has launched an urgent appeal to respond to the rising humanitarian needs.

Your support helps us keep people’s dreams alive. Thank you for making refugees welcome.

IRC President and CEO David Miliband on our response to the crisis in Ukraine. The IRC is on the ground in Poland, working with our local partners in Poland and Ukraine to mobilise resources to provide lifesaving support to people forced to flee their homes. Find out more.

"My goal is to help as many people as I can." IRC community health worker Nazo goes door-to-door testing children for malnutrition and advising parents. The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. Donate now to help families survive and rebuild their lives.

Inside the Building a Better Tomorrow programme

A heartfelt message from HRH, The Former Prince of Wales, who attended a virtual visit to the IRC's work in Nigeria. When you give to our Protecting Milestones appeal between 3 May and 3 August 2022, the UK government and a generous IRC donor will triple the gift - meaning your donation will go three times as far.

On 18th May 2022, the IRC hosted a virtual event to mark the launch of the UK Aid Match appeal, which will fund a new malnutrition programme in Nigeria.

When forced to flee their homes, refugees can only carry so much in their arms, but they bring so many intangible gifts to their new communities: hopes and dreams, experiences and talents, traditions and family stories, resilience and determination. Get a glimpse of some intergenerational conversations as families discuss all the things they bring with them, wherever they go. 

Virtual field trip to Nigeria

When asked how her family story has shaped her, Juno Englander, whose father fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the Second World War, answers without hesitation: "That one must never give up, that one must always see the positive."  Today, Juno’s father’s spirit also inspires his grandson, film and television actor Lucas Englander.  “He just tried as an individual to do his utmost to help people, or make a difference politically