Voices from the Field
Photo: The IRCBlogging from Aceh
The IRC's Peter Biro
"It was just cooling down after a long, hot day. I joined my colleagues to have a look at IRC's support of the Tambora youth group in Meulaboh, a city on the tsunami-wrecked west coast of Aceh...As we pulled up in the yard of the youth centre, live rock music was rattling the windows of a small house. Luckily, I had just arrived in time for the afternoon practice session of one of Tambora's many rock bands...I'm asked to join in."
Students’ Plus Girls Basketball Team
Fadumo, 17, refugee from Somalia, San Diego
"My family came here in 2004. We didn’t speak any English. And when we saw girls playing sports we were like, ‘how can they play? They’re girls.’ Then we learned a lot of things: like how it’s healthy to play sports and exercise."
Congo's Road to Health Care is Full of Potholes
Lydia Gomersall, IRC-UK
"Yesterday, one of the Congolese doctors working with the IRC in this remote province rolled up his trouser leg to show me an ugly looking graze, the latest injury he'd incurred flying off his motorbike during a regular day's work. The road we are on today is a highway compared to the paths he must negotiate to reach the outlying communities under his care."
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Darfur Podcast
The IRC's Emily Holland (above, in Rwanda) looks back on her month-and-a-half field visit to Darfur, Sudan. "You never really leave a place like Darfur," she says. "I plan to spend my time working to communicate all I've seen and heard until the displaced Darfuris I've met receive the help they need."
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