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Queen Noor addresses UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs
The Jordan Times

Amman, Jordan — June 25, 2008 — Her Majesty Queen Noor on Wednesday addressed the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs in Geneva, appealing for renewed international support for the estimated 67 million refugees and displaced people worldwide, including nearly five million displaced Iraqis.

Since 1985, she has been the founder and chairperson of the NHF, which has partnered with the American NGO International Relief and Development (IRD) and the Jordanian Red Crescent to implement innovative programmes funded by UNHCR and the US State Department, that provide primary and psychosocial healthcare screening and referral services to thousands of Iraqi children and mothers in Jordan. MORE >>

Chad: The story of Order # 81707503
ReliefWeb

Koloma, Chad — May 21, 2008 — *This is a UN story on the efforts to distribute supplies to displaced person camps in Southeastern Chad. The relief workers mentioned work for IRD.* An elderly woman sits under one of the few scrawny trees in a parched landscape as she and 8,000 other displaced people wait for aid workers to begin handing out some 100 tonnes of flour, salt, sugar, and cooking oil.

The woman's name is Hawa Brahim and the displaced site is Koloma, near the town of Goz Beida in Chad's southwest. MORE >>

People Making a Difference
Jim Lanning, IRD Director of Acquisitions and Logistics

Washington, DC — May, 2008 — I was deeply honored when the Kjaer Group asked me to be the subject of their first "People Making a Difference" profile. It struck me as a great opportunity to encourage those outside the community to get more involved in humanitarian work.
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Volunteers, Home Owners Celebrate Building Blitz
WLOX Gulfport

Gulfport, MS — May 2, 2008 — Home owners cut a cake decorated with the picture of a new house. Friday's noon hour celebration under the gazebo began as an ambitious project several months ago. Everyone sharing the barbecue lunch played a role in the special recovery effort.

Jennifer Stackhouse is a case worker with International Relief and Development. She helped organize the funding and match the need with the providers.

"It's very rewarding. It is very rewarding for me to see them get back on their feet. It's been such a long, hard road for them," she said. MORE >>

Food Aid Groups Push 'Green Revolution' to Fix Hunger Crisis
Associated Press

Kansas City, MO — April 16, 2008 — Amid a deepening world hunger crisis, leading food aid groups are calling for a "green revolution" that would help impoverished regions develop their own agriculture economies rather than relying on U.S.-grown food.
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Healthier Haskell Aims to Make Campus One of Healthiest in Country
Kansas City Star

Kansas City, MO — April 16, 2008 — Thoric Cederstrom, director of food security and food policy for International Relief & Development, which distributes food around the world, discussed a new report on obesity and malnutrition among American Indians at the ninth annual International Food Aid Conference this week in Kansas City.
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Malnutrition at the Margin: The Political Ecology of Global Hunger
The Leadership Imperative - A Mandate for Social Responsibility event
Thoric Cederstrom, Director of Sustainable Foods and Agriculture Systems, presenting

Long Beach, CA — April 10, 2008 — Currently, some 820 million people in the world suffer hunger from not getting enough protein and energy to eat.  Another two billion are unable to meet their daily requirements for vitamins and minerals, leading to a host of micronutrient-related diseases and deficiencies.  And yet, globally there exists enough food resources to meet protein-energy requirements and enough financial resources to produce sufficient micronutrients.  Dr. Cederstrom’s presentation will explore these contradictions by examining some of the complex linkages in global hunger, the role of food aid, and the role of anthropology in promoting truly sustainable development and solving the world food problem. MORE >>

A visit to Iraq and Jordan, January 2008
Conference publication, by IRD Board Member John Deckenback

Washington, DC — March 2008 —In January I had the opportunity to spend almost two weeks seeing first-hand another side of this war, the humanitarian effort to provide basic necessities to its victims.
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Charities start on 15 New Homes
The Sun-Herald

Gulfport, MS — October 12, 2007 — Community and national charitable organization came together Thursday to put up frames for a pair of new homes, the first of 15 to be built in South Mississippi under a new program. The Gulf Coast Community Service Center, a program of International Relief & Development U.S., initiated the program to complete construction on new homes by Christmas.
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Relief Organization Opens New Center In Gulfport
WLOX Biloxi Gulfport Pascagoula

Gulfport, MS — September 18, 2007 — The International Relief and Development organization provides help to nations all over the world. Workers of the non-profit were on the coast in full force just days after Katrina. Now, the Gulf Coast Community Service Center in Gulfport has a permanent place to carry out its services.
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Meals for Schoolchildren Ensure Good Health, Improve Attendance
usinfo.state.gov

Washington, DC — September 5, 2007 — In the Podor district of Senegal, it is a challenge for nomadic peoples to send their children to school.  Some leave the children with non-nomadic relatives, who then face the financial burden of extra mouths to feed.  Often, sending children to school is beyond the nomads’ means altogether. IRD Director of Food Security Thoric Cederström talk about how school feeding programs can help.
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First Food Shipments to primary schoolChildren Arrive in Laos
Laotian Press

Khammouane Province, Laos — July 30, 2007 — IRD received the first shipment of food from the United States of America on July 24, 2007, as part of the Safe Educational Opportunities primary school feeding / improvement program implemented by IRD in the Buaolapa, Mahasay and Gnomalat districts of the Khammouane province. The event received significant local press in Laos, PDFs available below.
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Defeating Terror Through Reconstruction
FrontPage Magazine

Washington, DC — June 14, 2007 — Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Victor Odegard, a member of International Relief and Development, an organization that seeks to reduce the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable groups and provide tools and resources needed to increase their self-sufficiency. Today he serves in Afghanistan, running the Construction Trades Training Center (CTTC), a school that turns out roughly 100 tradesmen each month and helps place them in well-paying construction jobs.
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Movers and Shakers
The Washington Times

Washington, DC — June 11, 2007 — Jeffrey Jordan was named chief of program development at International Relief and Development, a non-profit, non-governmental organization in the district.
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