Meet Deepak, the owner of two local restaurants and a former refugee.

This year, IRC Charlottesville client David Divin is going online and on-air to spread a message of hope to other refugees. In June, he joined an outside collaborator for an exciting and unique musical project to celebrate World Refugee Day.

Lautenberg Program for Former Soviet Union

An asylum seeker from El Salvador shares his experience migrating to the US, and how the IRC's Unaccompanied Children Program has helped him navigate the difficulties of resettling in a new city. “I think it’s great that an organization like IRC exists to support young people who are migrants like me.”

This December, the IRC in Silver Spring took 24 refugee high school students on a field trip to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.