David Miliband's personal account of the IRC's work on the ground in Ethiopia

As Europe struggles to mitigate a humanitarian crisis, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has returned to the Balkans, launching operations in Serbia in support of local organisations providing relief to people seeking safety.

"Every day we see the numbers grow," says Marian Hassan Mohamud. She is referring to the one million plus people in Somalia who have been displaced from their homes by drought, hunger and war.

Shaimah is 15 years old and has been living in the Cherso refugee camp in Northern Greece for over six months with her aunt and uncle. Living in constant uncertainty, her wish for the future is simple.

Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Northwestern Tanzania was established in 1996, when civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) forced people to flee their homes, often with little more than the clothes on their backs, and cross Lake Tanganyika into Tanzania. Today, more than 65,000 Congolese and Burundian refugees live in Nyarugusu, over half of whom are children.