The International Rescue Committee is racing to provide lifesaving food, shelter, water and health care to thousands of families displaced by fighting between Pakistani forces and Taliban militants in north-western Pakistan. 
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How We Help

• The IRC came to Pakistan to help millions of Afghan refugees in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980. Since then we have been assisting refugees as well as host communities in North-West Frontier Province.  Nearly 2 million Afghan refugees still remain in Pakistan. While working to find durable solutions for these refugees, the IRC continues to provide vocational training, education, and health assistance.
• IRC emergency teams aided more than 230,000 survivors of the devastating earthquake of 2005 and helped their communities "build back better."
• The vast majority of families fleeing the current fighting in the Swat Valley and other volatile areas of north-western Pakistan do not reach camps for the displaced but live with family or friends or are squatting in schools, abandoned buildings and other makeshift shelters.

Hear from IRC aid workers in Pakistan on our Voices from the Field blog.