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JUNE SIMMS: As Nancy Lindborg noted, USAID provides financial support to many NGOs. One such group is the International Rescue Committee. The IRC has been working in the Horn of Africa for many years. It provides economic aid, health care and support for victims of violence based on gender or sex. It also provides assistance to agricultural programs.
Kurt Tjossem is the IRC’s Regional Director for the Horn of Africa and East Africa. He says the group has expanded its programs because of the famine conditions.
KURT TJOSSEM: “We have worked in health, providing primary health care and nutrition services. And what we've done in northern Kenya, say for example, is we've ramped up to support the refugees that have crossed in from Somalia to Kenya in the Dadaab area. And we've also provided the Turkana population in northwest with supplementary feeding. In Somalia itself, we've just opened up operations in Mogadishu and are supporting internally displaced populations with primary health care.”
Kurt Tjossem says the International Rescue Committee has opened health care centers in Mogadishu. These centers operate in cooperation with Somalia’s Health Ministry to provide medicines and medical treatment. The group provides doctors and workers for the health care points.
The IRC also is active in Dadaab at the largest refugee camp in the world.
KURT TJOSSEM: “When we talk about nutrition, what we've done is we have, we run one of the hospitals in the Daadab refugee camp. As part of that there is a stabilization center. And so when malnourished children are identified they are referred to the stabilization center. And we’re able through our doctors and nurses to attend to these patients.”
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