A toddler rides a blue bike in the IRC Atlanta office.
Our friends and partners at Free Bikes 4 Kidz Atlanta recently provided 125 bikes and helmets for the children and young people that we have welcomed to a new home in Georgia—along with their families—in 2022!
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Our friends and partners at Free Bikes 4 Kidz Atlanta recently provided 125 bikes and helmets for the children and young people that we have welcomed to a new home in Georgia—along with their families—in 2022! 

So far, bikes have been gifted to refugee students in our Youth Futures, New Roots and Early Education programs, with more to be delivered to students in our My New School program as well as young people enrolled in our Connect 2 Success (C2S) program who need a bike to travel between work and GED classes.

We’d also like to thank the students from Indiana University Bloomington who kindly spent their Alternative Winter Break helping us distribute bikes to our new neighbors and their families.

We are so grateful to our friends at FB4K Atlanta and Indiana University for their generosity and for making refugees welcome here in Georgia. Scroll for more information about our Youth programs and photos of our students with their new bikes!

IRC Student Support Specialist, Langston Jenkins, and an adolescent male client standing with a red bike in a Clarkston neighborhood.
Connect 2 Success (C2S), the IRC in Atlanta’s program for out-of-school youth between 16-24 years old, has served 111 clients since its launch in 2016.
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Youth Student Support Specialist, Langston Jenkins, an an adolescent male posing with a bike in a Clarkston neighborhood.
In 2022, 51 refugee youth used the Clarkston High School garden—looked after by student participants in IRC Atlanta’s New Roots Garden Club—to grow food for household consumption, and 87% of students received harvested food to take home.
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A group of four IRC staff loading bikes onto the IRC box truck
The IRC in Atlanta’s Youth programs served 1,168 total youth from 31 different countries in 2022.
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Youth Program Supervisor, Julie Goldberg, posing with a collection of bikes.
The IRC in Atlanta’s My New School program enrolled 437 total children and young people enrolled in 40 local schools in 5 metro area school districts in 2022. Each student enrolled is provided a backpack and school supplies.
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Youth Program Supervisor, Julie Goldberg, and a man from FB4K posing with a collection of bikes.
Thank you to our friends and partners at Free Bikes 4 Kidz Atlanta for this generous gift!
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Six student volunteers from Indiana University Bloomington posing with a bike
Thank you to the students from Indiana University Bloomington who kindly spent their Alternative Winter Break helping us distribute bikes to our new neighbors and their families!
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To learn more about the work of the IRC in Atlanta and for information on how you can get involved with the IRC as a donor or volunteer, please contact Development Director, Heloise Ahoure, at Heloise.Ahoure@rescue.org or 678-636-8941.  

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