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A Partnership to Improve Primary Education and Student Health in Cambodia

May 15

Posted by Lali Chania, Deputy Director of Health

As Deputy Director of Health, over the past month, I was able to join Board Member Jane Okun Bomba as she conducted an oversight visit to our programs in Cambodia. It was very inspiring to see project activities and how it impacts lives of many children and families. In Cambodia, IRD works to improve the quality of primary education and student enrollment and to improv... more

Filed Under: Health & Hygiene, Education, Nutrition, Partnerships, Youth, Asia & Pacific, Cambodia

Join us for a global digital rally — Momentum1000

Apr 3 Posted by IRD HQ

We're participating in a global rally, and we want you to be there. On April 5, 2013, IRD is joining the UN Foundation and more than 20 other groups worldwide in Momentum1000, a global 1,000-minute digital media rally to raise awareness and inspire action around the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This Friday marks the 1,000-day milestone leading to the... more

Filed Under: Conflict Mitigation, Women & Gender, Asia & Pacific, Pakistan

In Her Own Words: Anne Ralte on Her Work to Inspire and Empower Women across the World

Feb 21 Posted by IRD HQ

I was born in Mizoram (land of the Mizo people), a remote, mountainous part of northeastern India, with our own language and culture. During my early childhood in the 1950s, we were a marginalized tribal group. Most families, like mine, made a living by farming. We lived in simple one-room wooden houses built on stilts along the hill slopes – with no running w... more

Filed Under: Civil Society, Capacity Building, Jobs, Women & Gender, Asia & Pacific

IRD’s Acquisitions & Logistics Team Forges Strong Partnership with Lutheran World Relief

Jan 23 Posted by IRD HQ

Our Acquisitions & Logistics team partnered with in-kind donor Lutheran World Relief, or LWR, to deliver millions of dollars’ worth of quilts, school kits, and personal and babycare kits to seven countries in 2012. LWR produced a poster showing that IRD was its partner agency on nine shipments during the period. According to Jim Lanning, director of Acquisition... more

Filed Under: Emergency Response, Asia & Pacific, Cambodia, Europe, Serbia, Ukraine, Middle East & North Africa, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen

Five-Year-Old Ahmad Has New Hope

Nov 6 Posted by IRD HQ

Earlier this year, Ahmad, 5 years old, was accompanying his grandmother for her doctor’s appointment at a medical facility in Charsadda, a district in conflict-affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, when a bomb blast exploded killing 20 people and injuring 47. Ahmad’s grandmother died instantly, and Ahmad lost one leg and badly injured the other. Ahmad’s parents an... more

Filed Under: Civil Society, Conflict Mitigation, Asia & Pacific, Pakistan