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David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center
Iraq

Sabieh Fayhaa walks half a kilometer for clean water in Chikook, a neigborhood that is home to about 650 displaced families in western Baghdad. People in the neighborhood say they have no access to schools and medical care and that they have received no aid from the government or organizations such as the Iraqi Red Crescent.

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The IRC estimates there approximately 1.3 million Iraqi refugees inside the country, the UNHCR estimates that number is growing by as much as 100,000 each month.