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Meet the only female ambulance driver in Kenya’s largest refugee camp
Determined and fearless, Batula Ali has spent her life breaking gender norms in Kenya, while dedicating her time to saving lives.
- Article
- September 28, 2023
Meet the Rohingya activist bringing feminism to the world’s biggest refugee camp
Razia Sultana is an independent activist, lawyer and feminist bringing change to the world's biggest refugee camp. In Bangladesh, close to one million Rohingya people have fled persecution in Myanmar. Living in an overcrowded camp, women continue to face violence—Razia is fighting to change that. Read her story from IRC-UK.
- Video
- September 2, 2022
Put a Refugee Behind the Wheel
Updates on the IRC in Charlottesville's car donation program.
- Announcement
- May 4, 2022
How To Help Refugees In Los Angeles
The United States is a country of immigrants with a long, proud history of welcoming and supporting the most vulnerable people to rebuild their lives in America. There are many ways you can honor that tradition and support the IRC in Los Angeles
- Announcement
- July 6, 2022
Shop Amazon and help a refugee
Visit the IRC's Amazon Wish List to purchase and ship household goods to the IRC.
- Announcement
- June 22, 2022
WATCH: Boise Refugee Reunites with Family after Five Years Apart
IRC Caseworker and Congolese refugee Dauda Balubwila worked tirelessly for five years to reunite with the family he left behind in Kenya. Watch the emotional moment as his wife and children step off the plane and into Dauda's arms.
- Announcement
- August 17, 2016
Making refugees welcome is an American tradition
Phoenix and America must, day in and day out, live up to the legacy, and the strength, of our “common immigrant heritage.”
- Announcement
- June 22, 2022
Cash: better aid for refugees who have lost everything
"If the rescue boats hadn't found us, we all would have drowned," recalls Mohammed Omadi. Mohammed and his family, from Afghanistan, came face-to-face with death when forced to cross the sea to Greece to seek refuge in a safe country. Their cash, passports and luggage disappeared in the waves. Cash relief provides emergency financial assistance for families like the Omadis that have lost everything.
- Video
- June 27, 2022
Spread the Word about Refugees and the IRC
Want to spread the word about making #RefugeesWelcome and also contribute more? There are various, creative ways to accomplish these goals simultaneously.
- Announcement
- August 12, 2022
A Community Health Volunteer Strategy for the Management of Hypertension and Diabetes and COVID-19 Detection Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Community health volunteers provided a critical link to Syrian refugees with noncommunicable diseases at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Report
- March 2, 2023