Global Health

In collaboration with its local partners, IRC has set up the PARIC project in Burkina Faso and Mali, a programme to strengthen community resilience and inclusion. The project aims to support vulnerable populations in pastoral areas of Mali and Burkina Faso in the Mopti zone and the Soum province, which have been badly affected by armed conflict, and to meet their needs in terms of survival, health and nutrition. Through the Economic Recovery and Development component of the project, IRC is helping families from these regions, some of whom have been displaced to urban areas, to develop or restart their professional activities. In Pabré, a town close to the capital of Burkina Faso, Solidarités International, a partner under the supervision of IRC, provides cash assistance and a professional support service to families. This support enables displaced people, like Ramata, to access new opportunities, such as new agricultural land or access…

I was working as a teacher in Syria In 2015. One day in June, on my way to buy some gifts for my students, I was caught by the regime forces and detained for 10 days.  Before this, my family and I lived happily together. I’m a university graduate and worked as a teacher for six years. I had many friends and was a social person.  Then, our neighbors’ house was bombed and demolished.  My sister, brother and father died in the bombing. Once I was released from detainment, they imposed a one-month travel restriction on me, and I couldn’t leave the country. My mother and the sisters who survived the bombing had already fled to Jordan, so after waiting 30 days, I fled to Jordan to follow my surviving family.  When I arrived, I was sent to a refugee camp for two months. After that, I moved to Jerash…

In close partnership with Sudanese diaspora groups, we raised the alarm about how the war in Sudan is creating a famine and a massive humanitarian crisis. We documented mass atrocities by the RSF paramilitaries – and focused global pressure on the United Arab Emirates to stop supplying arms to the RSF. We helped successfully push the U.S. government to make a formal determination that atrocities are occurring in Sudan, and to appoint a special envoy to lead diplomacy to end the war.

Project HOPE in Ukraine, with the support of International Health Partners (IHP), has donated 6,100 vials of cancer drugs worth about $4.5 million to the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. Interview with Pavlo Pozigun, Project HOPE’s Medical Coordinator in Ukraine. Due to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, communities close to the front line face numerous challenges related to the destruction of infrastructure, displacement of people and the provision of basic services to people, especially healthcare, supply of medicines, the need to modernize medical equipment and support for patients with chronic diseases, especially people with cancer. Thanks to the medicines provided by IHP, Project HOPE is able to support the main medical facilities that treat oncology patients. This is extremely important, as it reduces the burden on the healthcare system and provides timely and continuous treatment to the population. If the comprehensive complex treatment is not…

In the heart of Sudan, where hope often feels fragile, a young mother named Fatima faced a nightmare no parent should endure. Fatima’s love for her son, Ramadan, became her guiding force as she sought refuge, medical care, and a fresh start.   For twenty-year-old Fatima, life in Khartoum had been peaceful. She lived with her mother and her two young children, including her thirteen-month-old son, Ramadan. But in April 2024, violence erupted in her hometown, disrupting their lives forever. When the conflict became too close, Fatima knew they had to leave. She traveled with her son to Gadaref, while her mother stayed in Kosti with Fatima’s young daughter. The journey was long and arduous — with countless checkpoints and uncertainty around every corner. Fatima recalls, “It was a tough journey, and I missed my family terribly. I just wanted to keep my children safe.” Once they reached the gathering site,…

A farmer in Pakistan, Ghulam cares for his 12 family members on the little money he makes due to the poor farming conditions in his village. The sandy soils have restricted the farmland’s capacity for natural production because it does not retain water well. Ghulam was selected to have a water storage facility built on his farmland to help irrigate and drain the land through IRUSA’s Action for Drought Adaptive Practices and Transformation (ADAPT) project. This will prevent water wastage and have an immense effect on crop production. Thanks to your generous donations, Ghulam says that IRUSA has allowed “a new phase of life.”