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Photo Essay from Jo Offer in Kenya(July 2008) The IRC provides services to thousands of refugees and members of the local community in Kakuma camp, northern Kenya. The camp is currently home to an officially estimated 53,000 refugees from countries like Sudan, Somali and Ethiopia. The camp population has dropped from highs of more than 90,000 as many Sudanese refugees have been resettled recently. However, these refugees leave behind empty houses which provide an ideal hangout for thieves at night. One refugee told us, "There have been incidents. Men come. Two or three of them will have guns and others will have cutlasses. They hide in the houses. " "The police have been coming and doing patrols. It has helped to reduce the attacks but we are still worried." Work has also begun in the camp to demolish the empty houses.
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Afghans in pictures: Reluctant return (BBC)(May 2008) In April and May 2008 International Rescue Committee's senior policy adviser Anna Husarska went to Pakistan and Afghanistan to help highlight the plight of the Afghan refugees and returnees. Here is the story of the departure of Afghans from the largest remaining camp in Pakistan, the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar as told in Anna's photos.
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Myanmar: Clinging to Survival(May 2008) While aid deliveries have increased to cyclone-ravaged communities, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to languish—waiting in desperation for more food, water and medical care to arrive. As the International Rescue Committee’s Melissa Winkler reports, every day IRC teams have been delivering urgent relief supplies to people barely clinging to survival. (All photos taken by IRC staff and volunteers)
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Nepal Faces the Future(April 2008) An estimated 13,000 people were killed during the decade-long civil war between the government and the Maoists in Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world. A peace accord was signed in 2006 and recent elections, that will help determine Nepal’s future, were deemed largely fair by observers. But, for most people, life is a daily struggle in the Himalayan nation. Text and Photos: PETER BIRO
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