News from Salt Lake City, UT

The International Rescue Committee in Salt Lake City plants a third market at the IRC office for fresh, crisp summer produce.

Learn more about the IRC in Salt Lake City's response to COVID-19 in Utah, our efforts to ensure refugee families continue to receive the critical services they need, and ways you can help refugees in our community over the coming weeks and months.

Support the refugee and immigrant entrepreneurs of IRC's Spice Kitchen Incubator by becoming a volunteer with the Community Food Box Program.

Come volunteer at the East African Goat Project with some of our refugee families!

With support from the Utah Bar Foundation and other funding partners, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City alongside four local legal service providers—Catholic Community Services of Utah, Comunidades Unidas, Holy Cross Ministries, and Immigrant Legal Services—is excited to announce the launch of the Utah Immigration Collaborative, a community solution to providing broader, more cohesive legal immigration services to immigrants in the Beehive State.

After living here for a year, refugees reflect on what it means to live in the Beehive State.

Olga Mbongo, a caseworker at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City, shares what brought her to the IRC and the surprises that come with her job.

Spreading the word and spreading resources: volunteers at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City call refugees to provide more information about Census 2020.

Danielle Parker, an AmeriCorps member, shares her process of adapting Cultural Orientation for newly arrived refugees during a time of physical distancing restrictions due to COVID-19.

For the first time, Flavia, a budding writer resettled as a refugee by the IRC in Salt Lake City, is sharing her work with the community.