Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC
Since 2009, the IRC has trained and equipped nearly 700 volunteers in northern Uganda to provide lifesaving health care to children in remote communities struggling to recover from a decade of civil war. Meet two of these dedicated health workers.
Since 2009, the International Rescue Committee has trained and equipped nearly 700 volunteers in northern Uganda to provide lifesaving health care to children in remote communities struggling to recover from a decade of civil war. With IRC-supplied medicines, thermometers and even bicycles to travel to patients’ homes, the volunteers have treated 200,000 children since the program began. They provide a critical first line of defense against three childhood killers—malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia—that local clinics are underequipped to handle.