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Despite COVID-19 the IRC continues to serve our community

The team in Denver is working hard to adjust services to be delivered remotely to refugees and immigrants.

AnnouncementApril 21, 2020
Christelle Igihozo with her friends Janna Brown and Charlee Andree

An aspiring actress, and refugee, helps her friends believe in themselves

“You don’t realize that you are impacting other people’s lives,” Christelle, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, says of some of her first friendships in the United States.

ArticleSeptember 17, 2020

How to donate to Silver Spring

Private donations contribute greatly to the success of the IRC's work. Although we receive state and federal funding for initial resettlement and employment services, the assistance we provide to refugee families beyond their first few months in the U.S. would not be possible without community support.

AnnouncementJune 14, 2016

How to protect people in a refugee camp from COVID-19

People living in crowded refugee camps have no way to "social distance." Learn how the IRC team in Kenya's Kakuma camp, now home to some 194,000 refugees, is helping people stay safe during the COVID-19 p

VideoMarch 30, 2020
Syrian children in an IRC healing classroom tent

Helping Syrian children cope and heal after crisis

The Bezos Family Foundation along with the IRC and Global Nomads Group launched the Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms Challenge which will help Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and Iraq recover from crisis.

ArticleSeptember 21, 2015

See how education is reaching children in Pakistan

In Pakistan, education activist Malala Yousafzai’s homeland, nearly half of all children are out of school—and most of these are girls. The International Rescue Committee is there, working to help ensure that all children have access to education.
SlideshowJuly 12, 2017
Game of Thrones actors Liam Cunningham, Maisie Williams and Lena Headey walk through a refugee site in northern Greece

Join Game of Thrones and the IRC to help refugees

"Game of Thrones" cast members Lena Headey, Liam Cunningham and Maisie Williams traveled to Greece with the IRC to hear the individual stories of refugees stranded in the country for months.

ArticleApril 11, 2019
Rania Abou, wearing a mask, puts two containers of food inside paper bags to be given away as part of her work with the IRC and World Central Kitchen.

Meet the refugees helping their neighbors through the pandemic

When all you’ve had to keep going is enduring hope, you help people discover their own.

ArticleJune 14, 2020

Lena Headey's Zoom call: How the coronavirus impacts refugees

Game of Thrones actor and IRC Voice Lena Headey, at home in London, caught up with IRC psychologist Kiki Michailidou in Greece to hear how refugees she had met on her visits there were coping with the C

VideoApril 24, 2020

VITA volunteers help 222 refugee households file taxes for free

This tax season, the IRC in Atlanta partnered with United Way of Greater Atlanta as a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site, providing free tax preparation services to refugees, asylees and Special Immigrant Visa recipients.

AnnouncementApril 19, 2019

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