Each year over half of the refugees resettled by the IRC in San Diego are children; in 2022 18% of new arrivals were under 18 years old. Having reached the US, their futures are brighter than the uncertainty, conflict and violence they left behind but as they enter the American education system, refugee youth face a unique set of barriers to academic success.

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“I want everyone to become beekeepers!” Five years ago Huthafia received a grant from the IRC and Citi Foundation's Resilient Futures program to turn his hobby of beekeeping into a business. Since then, Huthaifa has faced bee-killing pesticides and shared honey with King Charles III.

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Through Ahlan Simsim, or “Welcome Sesame,”  the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop are bringing early childhood development and playful learning to children—like Ayla in Jordan—who are affected by conflict and crisis in the Middle East.

Tuesday, Dec. 19 marks 1,000 days since the beginning of the war in Yemen, a country which is now suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with a near-famine and the largest cholera outbreak in modern history. The conduct of war by all parties to the conflict repeatedly violates international law by targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.

As of this week, 3 million Syrians have become refugees, forced to flee their homes and their country. Watch and share this video to show your solidarity with the millions whose lives have been devastated by war for more than 3 years.

Nearly 60 million people have been forced to flee their homes by war, conflict and persecution — more lives upended than at any time in history. The International Rescue Committee joins the United Nations on World Refugee Day (June 20) in raising awareness of this unprecedented humanitarian crisis, urging global leaders to act, and saluting the courage of refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives far from home. Why is commem

Displacement can happen to any one of us when war and disaster strikes. This is exactly what you’re about to watch: moments when people forced to flee their homes due to war and conflict arrive in the United States to start over. But they need support to begin this new chapter in their lives.

The International Rescue Committee has called President Trump’s proposed cuts to United States government foreign aid as "counterproductive and ill-timed." Such steep cuts—roughly one third—send a clear message to the world’s most vulnerable: you are not welcome in America, and America will not help you where you are. 93 million people worldwide are in need of desperate humanitarian assistance.