Since 2012, the International Rescue Committee has been providing healthcare and nutrition services to the nomadic population across the region. This includes supporting small children and pregnant women threatened by malnutrition; a vital service as over 10% of children in the region suffer from malnutrition. As fixed settlements are few and far between, the IRC provides its services through mobile clinics - all free of charge.

Through counseling and creative activities, thirteen-year-old Nada regained a sense of hope, security and confidence.

We had watched the dinghy from about a mile out, making its way slowly across the Aegean Sea to the island of Lesbos. The scene along this eight-mile stretch of coastline has become familiar: a small corps of volunteers waiting on the shore, using hand gestures to caution the person steering the boat to slow down; the overcrowded dinghy full of anxious faces turned toward land tantalizingly close.

Even from a young age Kaniz Fatema has been determined to help people. Today she is an IRC midwife in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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