Summer and Fall 2021 internship opportunities in Kansas

"I want to advocate for the people I work with so they have the opportunity to live with dignity and wellbeing. I want them to experience joy and safety. All the things we consider to be basic human rights.”

Each year over half of the refugees resettled by the IRC in San Diego are children; in 2022 18% of new arrivals were under 18 years old. Having reached the US, their futures are brighter than the uncertainty, conflict and violence they left behind but as they enter the American education system, refugee youth face a unique set of barriers to academic success.

The 2024 Emergency Watchlist identifies and debunks five myths that have captured the discourse surrounding the world’s most pressing humanitarian crisis. Learn more here.

The Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) unit at the IRC works to ensure that those we serve have their most basic survival needs met and have the combination of assets and income to prosper.

The IRC hosted its first-ever green card workshop for 30 community members. A hard-working group of interns worked alongside IRC immigration specialists to complete a month's worth of green card applications in just one day!

On June 22, the Dallas community celebrated World Refugee Day!

Meet Keely Hawkins, an employment specialist at the IRC

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