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On the run again: Burundian mother escapes violence for the second time
Header Image Photo: Hannah Brown/IRC When Gloria Hikima heard armed men were on their way to her village in southern Burundi, she had no choice but to flee to neighboring Tanzania or risk being killed....
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Bringing clean water to a desert town sheltering Malians fleeing violence
Header Image Photo: Moustapha Diallo/IRC When 3,000 Malians fleeing fighting sought safety in the town of Menaka, the IRC constructed a new well that doubled the available water to help save lives....
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Central African Republic: Humanitarian suffering far from the spotlight
Header Image Photo: Peter Biro/IRC In a new report, the IRC warns that the Central African Republic -- one of the world’s poorest countries -- suffers not only from mass atrocities and misrule, but...
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Too soon to turn away: voices from Central African Republic
Header Image The IRC recently spoke with people across the Central African Republic who felt they had no real participation in the country's peace process after years of war. How could CAR be on a path...
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TODAY: Ask IRC aid workers in Lesbos about the refugee crisis [REDDIT AMA]
Header Image An International Rescue Committee emergency team is in Lesbos, Greece responding to the massive influx of refugees to the island. At 3pm EST today, July 23, they'll be on Reddit answering...
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IRC responds as attacks on Nigerian town drive thousands to Niger
Header Image Photo: Matias Meier/IRC The IRC is providing emergency assistance to more than half of the 14,000 people who fled the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak after it was attacked by...
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Can Obama help turn the tide of violence pushing refugees to Kenya?
Header Image Photo: Sven Torfinn, with IRC partner SV On the eve of President Obama's trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, the IRC is hoping he'll use the opportunity to meet refugees who have fled ongoing...
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1933: The IRC's daring beginning
Header Image Photo: IRC On this day in 1933 The New York Times reported the birth of the organization that would grow to become today’s IRC. That year a small group of concerned humanitarians from all...
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Lost in the chaos: Working to reunite children fleeing Burundi with their...
Header Image Photo: Frankie Parrish/IRC The IRC’s Frankie Parrish shares photos from the Nyarugusu refugee camp in northern Tanzania, where the IRC is working to reunite unaccompanied children with...
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Some of the world’s deadliest diseases affecting children are the easiest to...
Header Image Photo: Sven Torfinn/SV Read our latest story on Medium about the three most devastating diseases among children under the age of five. Every year, 6.3 million children under age five die...
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Sea route to safety: Inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos...
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Tyler Jump The IRC is delivering clean water and working to improve living conditions for hundreds of refugees crowded into the Kara Tepe camp on the Greek island of...
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1,000 refugees arriving on Lesbos each day urgently need aid
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC With as many as 1,000 refugees continuing to arrive each day on the Greek island of Lesbos, the lack of basic assistance such as food, water and healthcare is a...
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Bearing the scars of war, a young Syrian refugee escapes to Europe
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Tyler Jump Bearing the scars of an attack on his hometown, Mohammed, 18, is one of thousands of refugees from Syria's civil war who have arrived on the shores of...
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Courageous Yazidi women speak out after escaping violence in Iraq
Header Image Photo: Sameer Saran/IRC Basma is one of the lucky few Yazidis who managed to escape ISIS a year ago this week, when the group attacked religious minorities in the northern Iraqi district...
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Even through war, Syrian girl holds on to her dream of becoming a lawyer
Header Image Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC Meredith Hutchison Through the IRC’s Vision not Victim program, young refugees like 16-year-old Nour from Syria gain skills needed to build a better future...
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Refugee crisis in Greece [STORIFY]
Header Image Photo: Tyler Jump/IRC Follow our Greece refugee crisis Storify feature for updates from IRC aid workers, our partners, and others who are responding to and reporting on the crisis: Nearly...
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4 things you didn't know about diarrhea
Header Image Photo: Sven Torfinn/SV Every year, 760,000 children under the age of five die from diarrhea—an illness that is simple to treat and prevent. Here are four things you may not know about one...
View ArticleIRC shares tracking software that's helping aid reach Syrians trapped by war
The IRC has developed what Wired calls a “FedEx-style” package tracking system to track aid packages flowing into war-torn Syria for our local partners to deliver to places international aid groups...
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Away from war, Syrian children are going back to school in Lebanon
Header Image Photo: Sahar Chamseddine/IRC Some 350,000 school-aged Syrian children in Lebanon have no access to educational services. Go inside one of the classrooms where the IRC is helping young...
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Creating safe spaces for Nepal's students to learn after a devastating...
Header Image Photo: AAR Japan IRC partner AAR is building 25 temporary learning centers to replace earthquake-damaged schools in four villages in Nepal. Thousands of children in remote communities will...
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