Major NGO Helps in Liberia’s Ebola Fight

Although the Ebola crisis may have abated somewhat, the fight to contain the epidemic and help its victims continues in West Africa. At a press conference in New York, Nicole Walden of the International Rescue Committee offered an update. The IRC helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by disaster to recover and gain control of their futures. In the U.S. government's Foreign Press Center next to the United Nations, Nicole Walden told reporters about the IRC's...

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