Meet Assani Kabamba, a health program aide at the Denver office. Assani joined the IRC in Denver team when the office opened in 2016, but his passion for helping others has always been part of who he is.

GenR Dallas member, Hala, writes her thoughts on interpreting for a Syrian family home visit.

We are so incredibly grateful and humbled that the Dallas community came forward to support our refugee families in the biggest way during our annual Adopt-A-Family program this past holiday season.

On November 19th, 2020, members of the community joined together virtually to show their support their refugees at our annual fundraising dinner, Breaking Bread.

The working paper "Cash and Small Business Groups for Ugandans and Refugees" details learnings from the IRC and IKEA Foundation's Re:BUiLD programme, and finds that cash grants substantially improve business outcomes for men, women, refugees, and hosts. Combining mentorship with cash has an additional positive effect for refugee men, but a negative effect relative to cash alone for women who run higher-profit businesses. Mentors with higher baseline profits significantly improve mentees' business outcomes, while differences across group gender and nationality compositions are small. The shared fate addition worsens early outcomes in aligned groups but does not affect mixed groups.

The fastest growing GenR chapter in IRC history, GenR: LA is full of diverse and caring members with extraordinary backgrounds. In the past four months, we've grown from a group of eight people interested in learning more about the IRC to a group of 83 passionate professionals, working and living in the Los Angeles area. 

Community partnerships create a path for refugees to come full circle and aid other refugees resettling in Utah.

The second installment of the Vision Project welcomed 11 girls in from five countries (Afghanistan, El Salvador, Eritrea, Guatemala, Yemen) who spoke four different languages (Dari, Spanish, Tigrinya, Arabic). They ranged in age from 13 to 20 years old. Read on to learn about their experience