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- Title: Father and Ten-Year-Old Who Has Only Experienced Conflict
- Charity: International Rescue Committee, Inc.
- Country: Syrian Arab Republic
- Photo Credit: Abdullah Hammam/IRC
Sara is a ten-year-old girl who has only experienced conflict as the Syria crisis enters its eleventh year this March. She has been displaced around fourteen times since 2013 with her family. As a result of being displaced so many times Sara has missed out on several years of school and is now in the third grade, when she should be in the sixth grade. Sara dreams of going back to her home town and becoming a doctor. Her father participated in an IRC project funded by FCDO through which vulnerable Syrian women and men are provided with short-term work opportunities in exchange for a cash grant. In this case Sara’s father worked towards renovating a clinic in the town where he lives.
- Title: Somalian Refugees in Ethiopia
- Charity: International Rescue Committee, Inc.
- Country: Ethiopia
- Photo Credit: Martha Tadesse/IRC
Three Somalian teenagers are part of the IRC’s Girl Shine program where they learn about girls’ rights, skills, and hygiene. Over the last 10 years, approximately 180,000 refugees have fled over the border from Somalia into Ethiopia, currently residing in 5 camps. Somalia and Ethiopia are two of the four countries in East Africa that feature in the top ten of the IRC’s Emergency Watchlist 2022, our list of the 20 countries most at risk of humanitarian emergency this year.