Norwegian Refugee Council [to 18 July 2015]
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Fire safety
Refugees better prepared to face the elements
Jihane Kazoun (15.07.2015)
With fires sweeping through tented settlements and collective shelters in Lebanon, the Norwegian Refugee Council has been providing camp representatives with fire safety training to prevent exposure to the deadly flames and damage to their homes…
Liberia
Leaving Liberia
Hanne Eide Andersen (15.07.2015)
After 12 years of assisting refugees and internally displaced people in Liberia, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has closed down its operations in the country. “It has been twelve remarkable years”, says country director Sheila Donaghy.
“We arrived in a broken country. Liberia was in the midst of the enormous humanitarian crisis caused by years of disastrous civil war. Then followed the first critical years of recovery, reconciliation and rebuilding the country”, says Sheila Donaghy.
June 30th, she closed the doors to the facilities that have been housing the NRC office in Liberia’s capital Monrovia for the last time…