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Watch as Sesame Workshop and IRC help refugee children during COVID-19
Ahlan Simsim, created by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Sesame Workshop, is an early childhood development program that gives millions of refugee and displaced children and their families in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq the support they need to cope with crises and build a brighter future. The program has adapted to COVID-19 by providing caregivers with learning activities for their children via WhatsApp.
- Video
- April 13, 2022
Global partners successfully call on the United Nations to put play back on the agenda for 2 billion children worldwide
Global partners have successfully called on the United Nations to adopt an International Day of Play to champion and protect children’s right to play. The International Day of Play will be June 11th, with the inaugural celebration to take place in 2024.
- Announcement
- March 26, 2024
Ahlan Simsim: The IRC & Sesame Workshop
The IRC is working with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit, educational organization behind “Sesame Street,” in support of millions of children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
- Topic
The Gavi REACH Consortium: Delivering Immunization Services to Zero-Dose Children in the Horn of Africa
Routine immunizations protect individuals, communities, countries, and even the world from outbreaks of deadly diseases and pandemics. While global immunization coverage has increased dramatically in the past two decades, this is driven largely by gains in stable contexts. Children in humanitarian settings, including conflict-affected, remote regions, and cross-border communities continue to disproportionately lack access to this foundational health service.
- Report
- September 1, 2023
“Why did they have to bomb my doll?” As children face a mental health crisis in Gaza, IRC partners with NGO Anera to address psychological trauma
- Press Release
- March 12, 2024
Keeping Children Safe and Learning in a Pandemic: Education, Conflict, and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education of more than one billion children and youth worldwide. Children in humanitarian settings are experiencing the compound crises of a public health emergency and additional barriers to their opportunities to learn, develop and thrive. School systems have responded in varying ways but children in crisis settings face unique challenges. In response, the IRC has responded in nimble and innovative ways to continue reaching the families we serve in the face of school closures and other disruptions
- Report
- April 5, 2021
Education
During conflict and crisis, education protects children and sets them up for a better future. It provides a sense of hope and enables them to recover, learn and thrive. However, over 127 million children in countries affected by war and displacement are out of school, while many others receive only a poor quality education. Despite this great need, education has received less than three percent of all humanitarian aid in recent years.
- Outcome
Transforming Tomorrow: Innovative Solutions for Children in Crisis -- Learning from Ahlan Simsim’s experience in the MENA region
The report draws on the successes of the Ahlan Simsim initiative—the largest Early Childhood Development (ECD) intervention in the history of humanitarian response—reaching millions of children and caregivers across the Middle East with the support they need to learn, grow and thrive.
- Report
- March 13, 2024
The IRC on World Children’s Day: Children are suffering from a crisis they did not cause, climate change must be addressed
- Press Release
- November 18, 2022
A lasting friendship between refugee and American children
Through a mentorship program run by the International Rescue Committee in Boise, a refugee family from the Democratic Republic of Congo was introduced to the Nash family—their first friends in America. Read their story.
- Video
- June 27, 2022