News from San Diego, CA

Every summer, IRC in San Diego hosts a Girls Soccer program. The young women on the team develop their athletic ability and learn communication and leadership skills for life on and off the field.

Local refugee youth heading to college received scholarships to help ensure higher education success.

Meet Leila Murjan, an asset to our Project CHOP team and a superstar in the kitchen.

Natalie Youngers, her husband, and their farm are strong supporter/suppliers of Project CHOP and pour their heart and soul into growing the most savory produce.

Learn the inspiring stories of five Refugee Resilience Award honorees in San Diego

One of the easiest and most impactful ways to welcome refugees to your community is to pull together your networks and social groups through a fundraiser. Now more than ever, individual private support is crucial to the work we do in resettling refugee families and our work with the immigrant community. Raising funds through group efforts with your friends and family is a great help as we head into uncertain times.

The International Rescue Committee’s Youth Ambassador Program (YAP) strives to engage high school students in a conversation about current events and issues facing the global community.

Local refugee youth will attend UC Santa Cruz to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.

Each year over half of the refugees resettled by the IRC in San Diego are children; in 2016 56% of new arrivals were under 18 years old. Having reached the US, their futures are brighter than the uncertainty, conflict and violence they left behind but as they enter the American education system, refugee youth face a unique set of barriers to academic success.

After four years of waiting to come to the US, Nadia Hasan Madalo and her family were in the air on the way to San Diego when the most recent Executive Order on refugees was put on hold, giving other families the same chance.