The IRC in Salt Lake City’s Economic Wellbeing team celebrates the Shapoor family’s first home! Through matched assistance programs, the IRC actively works to combat an evolving housing market through community partnership, education tailored to refugees and other immigrants, and access to financial support for eligible community members.

Our 6,000 person staff—99 percent of them Afghans themselves—are working across 12 provinces to deliver programs in education, health and nutrition, women’s protection and empowerment, and more.

Community Sponsorship is a new program at the IRC in Salt Lake City! This program gives the community a chance to be involved with the resettlement process in a hands-on way. We sat down with Kristi Haycock, Community Sponsorship Manager, about what is involved in community sponsorship, and how people can get started!

Thank you for your interest in supporting the work of the IRC in Oakland and the Bay Area! Your generous donations of household items help provide a warm welcome to refugees upon their arrival as well as their continue integration in our local communities.

Cultivating welcome and integration is a collective effort. Together, we are turning hope into action in our communities. Join us in getting to know how dynamic supporters in Hutchinson, Kansas have partnered with the IRC in Wichita transforming lives through family sponsorship.

What does it look like to protect the world’s most vulnerable from the novel coronavirus? Go inside IRC coronavirus preparedness and response programs, launched in over 40 countries.

From our programming on the ground to our international advocacy work, here are six ways the IRC is supporting women and girls around the world.