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Supporting Refugees in Europe and the Middle East

by INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people around the world whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.

Millions of refugees—mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan—are seeking refuge from violence in Europe and the Middle East. As the first international responder to the refugee crisis in Greece, the IRC partners with government and local nonprofit agencies to assist and integrate the influx of families who have fled crisis.

Your support to the IRC in response to the refugee crisis in Europe helps ensure that we can:

• Protect families and IRC frontline staff from the Coronavirus pandemic through infection prevention and control, nutritious emergency food distribution, cash assistance, information sharing, gender-based violence response, mental health services, remote education, and more.
• Share our expertise in education for refugee children and youth, and protect unaccompanied children hoping to reunite with family in European countries welcoming refugees.
• Run safe spaces and offer special protection services for vulnerable women fleeing crisis.
• Develop the tools and offer services that prepare refugees to join the local workforce and productively contribute to their new communities.
• Provide refugees with credible current information about available services, legal rights, options for asylum, relocation and family reunification through Refugee.Info.
• Ensure that refugees—particularly those living with illness, disability or trauma, or who are unable to protect themselves against exploitation and other harm—have access to counseling services and therapeutic and recreational activities.
• Provide emergency cash relief to help refugee families cover essential purchases from local shop owners, to regain some financial autonomy in their lives and contribute to the local economy.

Your compassionate gift to the IRC will help refugees in Europe secure safety, rebuild their lives, and enrich the fabric of their host communities.

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