On Saturday, June 20, refugee supporters from across the state came together for the 20th annual celebration of World Refugee Day.

In September 2018, a man from the DRC arrived in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and four children. Today, he and his wife work full time, all their children attend school and the family has purchased their own car. Now he is giving help to other refugees.

Keila's story highlights the full arc of resettlement from displacement form Venezuela to hearing about MicroEnterprise Development program in Cultural Orientation, to starting up her own business with the knowledge she gained from her IRC-MED coach.

“You don’t realize that you are impacting other people’s lives,” Christelle, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, says of some of her first friendships in the United States.

While the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments regarding the travel ban, IRC volunteers and staff joined a rally in support of refugees, immigrants, and the Muslim community.

The meeting was an opportunity for leaders and members from different faith based groups to come together to learn more about the IRC and ways that their organizations could get involved.