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

Meet five individuals we’ve supported over the years, who have gone on to become a crucial part of their new communities and are giving back in countless ways.

The global reduction in foreign aid budgets has created a humanitarian funding crisis at a time when needs are soaring. These 13 countries face the most severe consequences.

Originally from Burundi, Vital was one of thousands of Burundians forced to flee in 1972. At 19 years old, he lived in a temporary center that hosted refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire. He spent ten years in the DRC and continued his education despite the challenging circumstances.

Pediatrician Dr. Seema Jilani discusses the impact of conflict on Gaza’s citizens and their health system.

Refugees and people experiencing crisis have been hit especially hard by COVID-19. Go inside the IRC’s innovative, lifesaving responses to the global pandemic.

This report builds the case for electronic payment preparedness to support humanitarian interventions by providing a baseline analysis of existing donor support for electronic payment preparedness and actual electronic payment preparedness needs in select high-risk disaster prone countries.

Meet Shakira, Julia, Nelson, Jamila, Suzan and Bijou—six entrepreneurs who are rebuilding their lives in Uganda, a country that hosts more than 1.2 million refugees.