Beginning 2019 with a conundrum - Like you might guess about the world  - was it always getting better and worse at the same time?
  Steven Pinker
Somalia needs for 2019

We have consistently had more women attend our humanitarian aid training. Still, the Humanitarian Advisory  Group is working on a report to discuss why more women aren't leaders in the field.

Pittsburgh has an Office of Sustainability and Resilience. We'll be hearing something about it from City Councilperson Erika Strassburger as part of the Global Development and Humanitarian Aid Training at La Roche College, May 21-25. Still a few spaces available!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/finding-and-helping-syrias-orphans-of-war/
60 Minutes covers a difficult and important story. Volunteers are helping but humanitarian aid on a large scale is the only way these orphans needs will be addressed properly. Training in humanitarian aid could get you started helping.

Water -among the many resources workers in development and humanitarian help with! Here's a cool project I recently found out about!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5GOYR604s

Blog on Humanitarian Law and Policy - featured article today on education during war. Imagine this being your school room!

The INEE also addresses this area with training, resources and jobs for teachers on their website. Learn more about these and other important issues at our training May 21-25. Still spaces available!

This picture is from a bush school in Karen State, Myanamar. Karen Education Department

Displaced is hosted by Ravi Gurumurthy, IRC’s Chief Innovation Officer, and Grant Gordon, IRC’s Director of Innovation Strategy, and is produced in partnership with the Vox Media Podcast Network.  Concern about humanitarian crises is catching on!

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