Katrina, Two Years On
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on 29 August, 2007
 Photo: Greg Beals/The IRC |
| This June, nearly two years after responding to a humanitarian crisis in the United States for the first time in our history, the International Rescue Committee closed our Hurricane Katrina evacuee assistance program. Story
A Look Back Only days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed a swath of the Gulf Coast, the IRC dispatched an emergency team of relief experts to Louisiana. Story The IRC’s Lisa David traveled back to her home state of Louisiana to join an IRC team supporting local relief efforts for people displaced by the disaster. Her week blogging on the road. More IRC Katrina blogs |
6 July, 2008 at 8:46 pm
[...] part from the experiences shared by international humanitarian organizations like Mercy Corps and IRC. For many of them, Katrina was the first time they responded to a domestic emergency. In an [...]