Thanks to a generous donation, the IRC in Salt Lake City brings early childhood development kits to young refugees helping them develop crucial cognitive skill through play.

The IRC in Denver's Youth Team staff, interns and volunteers facilitates fields trips for clients to Colorado parks all over the front range. The program was funded and supported by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), with the goal to enable immigrant and refugee families and their children to explore the beautiful outdoors of our Colorado mountains.

A proposal put forward by the Trump administration seeks to slash foreign aid by a third, a deep and disproportionate cut that will have life and death consequences for the world’s most vulnerable, and put the health, security and prosperity of Americans at risk.

In acute emergencies, the IRC establishes emergency water, sanitation and hygiene promotion programs, ensuring that life-saving services can be initiated efficiently. As countries evolve from emergencies to rebuilding, the IRC works to build stronger community and government oversight on improved water, hygiene and sanitation services, and maintenance of systems.

Thanks to funds provided by IRC donors in response to February's emergency appeal, the IRC in Sacramento is expanding economic empowerment workshops for women this summer. Meet two of the participants.

Private Violence, Public Concern, examines the nature and drivers of intimate partner violence in three refugee camps across three continents. The research shows that intimate partner violence in humanitarian settings is driven by a complex set of factors that include pre-existing gender inequalities, which is exacerbated by rapidly changing gender roles.