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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.

Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution or natural disaster.

The IRC is currently working in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities where it resettles refugees and helps them become self-sufficient.

The President of the International Rescue Committee is former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.

A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover and also on the infrastructure available.

A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition).

Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted by the contracting state or the UNHCR if they formally make a claim for asylum.

War is a state of armed conflict between societies.

It is generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.

An absence of war is usually called "peace".

Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general.

Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant casualties.

CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects.

Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental.

It is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty.

In 2014, CARE reported working in 90 countries, supporting 880 poverty-fighting projects and humanitarian aid projects, and reaching over 72 million people.