Sammiah Ebadi has been volunteering with the IRC in Denver office for 6 months. An immigrant herself, Sammiah has found meaning and pride in helping others who have resettled in the United States.

A nonprofit organization, Utah Refugee Goats, was founded by the East African refugee communities who initially started the Goat Project and has assumed management of the goat ranch.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly recently signed a proclamation honoring the work of Kansas refugee resettlement agencies and celebrating Kansas’ immigrant heritage in honor of World Refugee Day on June 20th.

There are now 100 million people displaced worldwide as a result of the Ukraine war and new waves of conflict and violence in other countries.

Wondering how you can help refugees remotely? There are several ways to get involved and help give refugees the warm welcome they deserve this year!

RYSA, now the Newcomer Youth Summer Academy (NYSA), welcomes dozens of Peer Mentors as key team members each year. Alice, a Peer Mentor for RYSA 2020 - a virtual and unusual year - offers her reflections below. Inspired? Volunteer with NYSA 2021

Sudan is now the country with the largest number of displaced people and the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

Makia Adam arrived in the U.S. in 2015 and began working with IRC in Silver Spring in the summer of 2018 when she became a freshman in high school.

This August marked the one-year anniversary of the collapse of the government in Afghanistan, and the beginning of emergency response efforts to evacuate and resettle more than 120,000 Afghan citizens. Hear from Mohammad, a humanitarian parolee!

IRC interns Christina and Riley share how the IRC's summer school program makes a difference in the lives of refugee students, as well as the lives of the interns who are essential to making the program a success.