Ines who volunteered with the IRC in Silver Spring to reunite children with their parents now provides them critical services

Each year over half of the refugees resettled by the IRC in San Diego are children; in 2016 56% 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.

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.