International Rescue Committee [to 16 February 2014]

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International Rescue Committee   [to 16 February 2014]

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The IRC’s impact: Read stats and stories in our new annual report
Posted by The IRC on February 14, 2014
In 2013, the IRC and our partner organizations provided 13 million people with primary and reproductive health care and gave 1.4 million people access to clean drinking water and sanitation. Read more about the impact of our work in our latest annual report. more »

Much more than medicine: a doctor’s first days with the IRC
Posted by The IRC on February 14, 2014
Hear from Dr. Mohammed Awni Ibrahim, a Jordanian general practitioner who works in an IRC primary care clinic in northern Jordan where most of the patients are Syrian refugees. more »

South Sudan: Updates from the field
Posted by The IRC on February 12, 2014
The IRC’s Sophia Jones-Mwangi is in Juba, South Sudan, this week to report on work the IRC is doing to assist people displaced by the conflict in the world’s newest nation. Follow our South Sudan Storify story for updates from Sophia and others who are responding to and reporting on the crisis. more »

Salam Neighbor: A bridge between Americans and Syrians
Posted by The IRC on February 12, 2014
When an email arrived in my overflowing inbox with news that yet more visitors were coming in January—this time a documentary film crew—my first reaction was, “We are too busy for this.” After our meeting, however, I realized I may have misjudged them. more »

Helping Syrian children with no one to look after them
Posted by Peter Biro on February 11, 2014
“Children are our future but they the ones those who suffer the most in refugee camps,” says the IRC’s Salih Salahaddin Musa, who specializes in helping unaccompanied and separated Syrian refugee children. more »

David Miliband: Syria may be lost, but we must stand by its victims [Commentary]
Posted by The IRC on February 10, 2014
David Miliband writes in The Sunday Times: “Is Syria lost — gone, finished, beyond hope as a nation and beyond redemption for its people? That is the unspoken fear of refugees that the International Rescue Committee is helping in neighboring countries and the displaced people we are helping with humanitarian aid inside Syria.” more »

Intl Rescue Comm IRC ‏@theIRC Feb 13
#GBV in conflict settings by @JhumkaGupta on @TheWorldPost. Learn about the IRC’s collaborative research w/ @Yale>> http://huff.to/MPfcO2

Intl Rescue Comm IRC ‏@theIRC Feb 13
(2/2) FACT: In 2013, IRC provided 725k girls&boys schooling & educational opportunities & trained over 20k educators pic.twitter.com/qLBlSKjoCC

Intl Rescue Comm IRC ‏@theIRC Feb 13
Interested in learning more about the IRC’s work in #SouthSudan? Go to our @Storify with live updates here: http://bit.ly/1brRPpd

Intl Rescue Comm IRC ‏@theIRC Feb 8
Watch here @DMiliband‘s interview on PBS @NewsHour on the situation in #Homs and what needs to be done for #Syria: http://to.pbs.org/1nk7yX7