As a way of tackling the ongoing displacement crisis, the IRC is focusing on community engagement to help with the integration of resettled refugees into our local communities, through a new Community Sponsorship model called the HOME (Housing, Orientation, Mentoring, Education) program.

On September 29th, the Biden administration announced the United States will admit 125,000 refugees in fiscal year 2024, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024. We welcome the current administration’s commitment to address the needs of the 110 million people currently displaced worldwide. The IRC in Silver Spring expects to resettle 600 refugees this year, a twenty percent increase from the 500 allocated to IRC in Silver Spring in fiscal year 2023.

The IRC Iraq Protection Needs Overview for October 2023 to March 2024 highlights significant challenges faced by internally displaced people (IDPs), returnees, refugees, and host communities, focusing on access to basic services, legal assistance, and the impacts of climate change. Key issues include heightened vulnerabilities, child labor, and barriers to accessing education and legal documentation.

The IRC Iraq Protection Needs Overview for October 2023 to March 2024 highlights significant challenges faced by internally displaced people (IDPs), returnees, refugees, and host communities, focusing on access to basic services, legal assistance, and the impacts of climate change. Key issues include heightened vulnerabilities, child labor, and barriers to accessing education and legal documentation.

Learn more about our Salamati Rohi program that aims to build resiliency among forcibly displaced Afghans here in Colorado from MHPSS Program Coordinator, Cherisse Davis and Mental Health Specialist, Masooma Sadeqi.

Following the release of the IRC’s Emergency Watchlist 2024 in December last year, a list of 20 countries most at risk of humanitarian deterioration where Sudan was ranked number 1, the IRC has produced a mid-year Sudan Crisis Alert Report to show the trajectory of the world’s worst displacement crisis, as an update to the Watchlist report. Read our report here.