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How the IRC creates safe spaces for children during crises
The International Rescue Committee’s Safe Healing and Learning Spaces are secure, caring and stable environments for children who are living in conflict or crisis. These spaces give children the opportunity to learn and grow and develop the skills they need to be resilient in the face of adversity. Learn more from members of the IRC's child protection team.
- Video
- April 13, 2022
Why are children so vulnerable to famine and other hunger crises? 
Across the world, hunger crises are disproportionately impacting children. Learn why children are especially vulnerable to famine and what the IRC is doing to help. 
- Article
- October 19, 2023
REEC: Reinforce Educators, Empower Children against child abuse in Greece and Italy
The REEC project will forge a protection response for children affected or at risk of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Article
- September 6, 2023
Heartwarming messages from American children to Syrian children
As the war in Syria enters its seventh year, students from the Sage International School in Boise wrote uplifting letters to Syrian children half a world away. Read all the letters.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
A voice for Syria’s children
TIME Magazine recently named Mustafa Hassan one of its 100 most influential people for his work providing aid to Syria’s children.
- Article
- July 11, 2022
Venezuela's hidden crisis: its children's unknown futures
Education has the power to protect children and help them heal during a crisis, say IRC overseer Caroline Kennedy and senior education director Sarah Smith. But roughly half of Venezuelan refugee children in Colombia are not in school.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Uncertain futures: unaccompanied and separated refugee children in Greece
This briefing aims to bring attention to ongoing issues of concern and provide concrete recommendations for improving the response for this highly vulnerable group of children.
- Report
- July 18, 2017
How deep breathing and mindfulness help Iraqi children
Hundreds of thousands of children have been forced to flee their home by the battle against ISIS in Iraq. Watch and share Arwa’s story. Arwa fled her home in Mosul. Today she attends the IRC’s center for children where she practices mindfulness to deal with the trauma she has experienced. The center, supported by EU humanitarian aid (ECHO) also gives her a place to play, learn and to just be a child again.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Learning for all children
Children with disabilities are often the most marginalized group in education, especially in countries affected by conflict and crisis. Here are six ways we work to ensure equal opportunities for all children.
- Slideshow
- June 22, 2022
What happens to children who are separated from their parents?
Children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border as the result of a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy are at risk of toxic stress, which can have short- and long-term effects on their health, behavior and ability to learn. Here's what can be done to help.
- Article
- June 27, 2022