Guide to create and donate Welcome Kits to IRC Missoula.

For the fourth year running, the Dallas community has shown our refugee and immigrant families just how welcoming our city can be.  Home for the Holidays, our annual giving program, has expanded to help 60 families during this holiday season. That is 243 mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters whose lives were changed by our community.

Every year on North Texas Giving Day, we’re reminded just how much we love North Texas.

Help ensure that information about COVID-19 is language-accessible. Please share the linked resources widely with our friends and neighbors in refugee and immigrant communities!

Purchase items needed for refugee families to be delivered directly to their doorstep.

More than 50 families, friends, church and civic groups came together to gather items refugee families prioritized on their wish lists, such as vacuums, televisions, and household items for over 55 newly arrived refugee families and individuals. More than $20,000 worth of in-kind donations were collected and distributed during the month of December to these families.

With help from 17 volunteers from wealth management firm Brighton Jones, IRC program participants received one-on-one support building plans to achieve their financial goals. 

Newly arrived Congolese client Chishimba Muyambo has brought his impressive painting skills to New Jersey.

On Saturday November 16th, 2019, the IRC in Silver Spring hosted a Thanksgiving meal for recently-arrived refugees.

This report refocuses attention on the needs of the Central African people as well as on the obstacles the IRC and other humanitarian agencies are experiencing in trying to aid the population.