Americans have the opportunity to help refugees in their own backyards. Every year, the International Rescue Committee and other nonprofit organizations contract with the US government to help up to 110,000 refugees a year resettle, find jobs and housing, and integrate into American life. 

Clients participate in cooking demonstrations at the IRC in New York community garden in the Bronx and learn about healthy eating in America.

The International Rescue Committee is fundraising through the May 3 Idaho Gives to expand RISE Together swim programming to serve a larger population of refugee youth this summer. With your help we can RISE Together to make refugee children safer in and around water!

The country is facing an economic and hunger crisis that could kill more people than the past twenty years of war.

This World Refugee Day, discover TRISHES' new collaboration with the International Rescue Committee and refugee musicians from around the world.

Get the latest on the situation in Afghanistan, the Afghan refugee crisis, and ways to help with humanitarian aid and refugee resettlement efforts. 

Originally from Burundi, Vital was one of thousands of Burundians forced to flee in 1972. At 19 years old, he lived in a temporary center that hosted refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire. He spent ten years in the DRC and continued his education despite the challenging circumstances.

Pediatrician Dr. Seema Jilani discusses the impact of conflict on Gaza’s citizens and their health system.