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How to Help Refugees in Charlottesville
Learn the many ways that you can support the life-saving work of the IRC in Charlottesville.
- Announcement
- February 17, 2017
IRC pharmacist provides refugee women with access to medicine in Jordan
Tamara, an IRC pharmacist, is providing Syrian women at the Azraq refugee camp with access to medicine for reproductive health. Amid a national lockdown in Jordan due to the coronavirus, IRC health programs continue to operate.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
In the midst of chaos, one refugee graduates with a bright future
Six years after arriving in Kansas, one refugee achieves his dream.
- Announcement
- May 27, 2020
IRC: This year’s Global Refugee Forum is time for bold, ambitious action on refugee protection and inclusion
- Press Release
- December 12, 2023
"When people are hurt or sick, then I am hurt or sick."
Daily life as a refugee in Bangladesh is a struggle, but that doesn't stop Fatima from volunteering at an IRC-supported health center in a camp that's home to 700,000 Rohingya who fled persecution and violence in Myanmar a year ago. Fatima says, "I help people because it's as if when people are hurt or sick, then I am hurt or sick." Read more about the Rohingya crisis, one year on.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Donations Needed for Refugees in the Bay Area
Thank you for your interest in supporting the work of the IRC in Oakland and the Bay Area! Your generous donations of household items help provide a warm welcome to refugees upon their arrival as well as their continue integration in our local communities.
- Announcement
- June 2, 2025
'In El Salvador, you don’t know if you’ll make it home alive at the end of the day'
Threatened by gangs in El Salvador, Valentina escaped danger by resettling to the United States. She tells her powerful story so others, like her, might have a chance at safety and freedom.
- Article
- December 30, 2022
IRC partners with the IKEA Foundation to build opportunities
The IRC and the IKEA Foundation are developing livelihood opportunities for refugees and vulnerable people in the communities that host them.
- Topic
Nina Levchuk: 5 things learned as the accidental founder of an NGO for Ukrainian refugees
In February 2022, Googler Nina Levchuk, became the founder of leading NGO, “United for Ukraine”. The United for Ukraine platform has received funding and support from the International Rescue Committee and a team of Google.org Fellows— and has helped over 5 million people to find crucial information and provided over 300,000 refugees with housing, legal aid, psychological and educational support.
- Announcement
- June 23, 2023
IRC launches emergency response as over 40,000 refugees from DRC arrive in Burundi
- Press Release
- February 25, 2025