Education has the power to protect children and help them heal during a crisis, say IRC overseer Caroline Kennedy and senior education director Sarah Smith. But roughly half of Venezuelan refugee children in Colombia are not in school.

As part of the Education in Emergencies: Evidence for Action (3EA) initiative, with start-up funding from Dubai Cares, we worked to develop, provide and evaluate complementary education programs to children enrolled in public schools in Lebanon, Niger and Sierra Leone.

IRC in LA interns tour New Roots garden in San Diego alongside interns from Liberty In North Korea and IRC San Diego.

The program, called Play Well, creates and adapts play-based social-emotional learning (SEL) content to be delivered via radio, phone-based audio services, and other digital platforms where internet-access is limited, providing modular content that promotes playful learning at home.

For young children who have experienced war and been uprooted from their homes, education can be a lifeline.

“I want all children to go to school, especially girls who are told that they should stay home.” Meet 10-year-old Anastasie and other children now back in class.

This IRC resource is a bilingual Ukrainian-English worksheet for parents/caregivers to work through with their child. The focus of this worksheet is 'Physical Education (PE)'.