Take a look back with us at some of the major milestones in our work over the last nine decades.

The Muppets are embarking on humanitarian missions. In spring 2016, Sherrie Westin, executive vice president of global impact and philanthropy for the Sesame Workshop, and Sarah Smith, a director at the International Rescue Committee, announced a collaboration to develop educational programs for refugee children.

The report documents the experience of adapting and implementing this play-based home visiting intervention in a crisis setting and shares stories of community workers and caregivers participating in the program in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.  We are now scaling this intervention through our Ahlan Simsim program to reach even more children and caregivers.

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.

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.

President Trump’s recent Executive Order did not solve the family separation crisis. IRC humanitarian programs in some of the poorest places in the world tell us five things children and families need to survive and thrive that should be in place at the southern border.