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Volume 2, Issue 2, March - April 2005
IRC Blog Provides Behind the Scenes View of Humanitarian
Aid Efforts
Source: International Rescue
Committee (IRC) (NGO Latest)
Published on: AlertNet
March 24, 2005
The International Rescue Committee has launched a blog that gives Web site visitors a new, more personal way of learning about IRC people and programs. The blog will feature contributions from IRC staff working in 25 countries around the world and some 20 refugee resettlement offices across the United States.
“IRCblog.org gives everyone on IRC’s staff a chance to share their work and tell our story in their own words and pictures,” says Kathleen Sands, the IRC’s Web director.
Recent blog posts include diaries shared by doctors treating tsunami survivors in Indonesia, drawings by former child soldiers assisted by the IRC in Uganda, and photos taken by relief workers aiding refugees from the violence in Darfur, Sudan, and responding to lesser known emergencies, such as the recent storms that have stranded more than 100,000 people in Pakistan without food, fuel or medicine.
The blog can be found at www.IRCblog.org or linked from the IRC Web site at www.theIRC.org.
Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee is a global leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development and resettlement services for refugees and other populations uprooted or affected by persecution or violent conflict.
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Reuters. ]