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Vocational Training for a More Vibrant and Stable Economy
A ceremony was held March 20 in Charsadda for 116 Pakistanis, including 19 women, who completed vocational training offered through the Conflict Victims Support Program. Certificates were awarded to participants in tailoring, refrigerator repair, plumbing, electrical systems, and computer software. Participants also received a small in-kind grant to immediatel... more
Filed Under: Conflict Mitigation, Emergency Response, Jobs, Relief to Development, Women & Gender, Asia & Pacific, Pakistan
IRD Distributes Clothing to Ukrainian Children’s Rehabilitation Center
The All-Ukrainian Children Rehabilitation Sanatorium “Chayka” (Seagull) is located in the Black Sea resort area of Yevpatoriya. Chaika opened in 1913 as a “private payment-free recreation facility for low-income families.” With a century of experience, the now state-run rehabilitation center has developed efficient and progressive methods for the treatment and re... more
Filed Under: Emergency Response, Relief to Development, Youth, Europe, Ukraine
Refugee Herdsman Becomes a Settled Farmer
MANDJOU, Cameroon – Saliou Adamou, 55, fled to Cameroon from unrest in the Central Africa Republic in 2005. With four wives and 15 children, the nomadic herdsman was hard pressed to take care of his family, having lost all of his 500 cows. For his first three years as a refugee, Adamou relied entirely on monthly food rations from the World Food Program to feed his family... more
Filed Under: Food & Agriculture, Capacity Building, Relief to Development, Water, Africa, Cameroon
Building Resilience in Drought-Affected Communities
During the 2010–11 drought, Da’ud lost all his livestock – his main household assets. He couldn’t cultivate his land due to lack of funds to remove the invasive shrub, Prosopips Juliaflora (which requires tractors to eradicate). Nor could he afford the soaring price of fuel to operate the irrigation pump. So he became a day-laborer in Dollo-Bay, loading and unloading tru... more
Filed Under: Emergency Response, Food & Agriculture, Relief to Development, Water, Africa, Ethiopia
Response to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
The Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, caught the world’s attention with the deaths of an estimated 225,000 people and scenes of total devastation in 11 countries around the region. IRD responded immediately in two of the hardest hit countries: Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Within the first week of the disaster, IRD delivered 15,000 metric tons of rice valued at $4.... more
Filed Under: Emergency Response, Relief to Development, Asia & Pacific, Indonesia