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How you can welcome Afghans in your community
Many of the International Rescue Committee’s over 20 offices across the United States are helping families arriving from Afghanistan.
- Article
- August 2, 2022
Update! Watch the October 7th webinar recording on IRC's Afghan Emergency Response in the US
Update! Watch the October 7th webinar recording on IRC's Afghan Emergency Response in the US
- Announcement
- July 1, 2022
Inside Moria: overcrowding, endless waiting, and despair
8,300 refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan are living in deplorable conditions in an overcrowded refugee camp in Moria, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Most are in the process of making asylum claims after feeling danger in their countries, but shortages and high tension in the camp are making life unsafe in the camp.
- Article
- June 27, 2022
Empowerment at the New Roots Community Farm
New York City refugee women are growing produce, community, and job skills at the IRC New Roots Community Farm in the Bronx
- Announcement
- June 27, 2022
GenR LA celebrates the holidays with annual gift drive
IRC's GenR LA helped put on a gift drive and winter welcome part for our refugees and families this year, bringing holiday cheer to refugees from far and near.
- Announcement
- January 30, 2024
Mandy Patinkin: Witnessing the refugee crisis in Europe
Actor Mandy Patinkin is traveling in Europe with the IRC this week to see the refugee crisis firsthand, and meet brave and resilient people at various stages of their own journeys from harm to home. Follow his path - and theirs - from Greece to Serbia and Berlin.
- Article
- June 22, 2022
Refugee Hafeza’s delicious Afghan Bolani recipe
Earlier this year the IRC in Greece hosted cooking workshops for refugee and local women living on the Greek island of Lesbos. Some of the women who took part talked to us about their experience and shared the recipe of the dish they shared with the group. Hafeza shares her recipe for Afghan Bolani.
- Article
- October 26, 2022
How the Emergency Rescue Committee became the International Rescue Committee and where we are today
Netflix’s Transatlantic tells the story of how Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee helped thousands of refugees flee France during World War II. Read how the organization became the International Rescue Committee and how we’ve continued to support people facing conflict and crisis for the past 90 years. Through the years 1933 Varian Fry at his office in Marseilles in the spring of 1941.
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Biking to Success
IRC partnered with the Charlottesville Fire Department to distribute bikes and educational training to newly arrived refugees.
- Announcement
- October 28, 2022
IRC hosts Thanksgiving for refugees
On Saturday November 16th, 2019, the IRC in Silver Spring hosted a Thanksgiving meal for recently-arrived refugees.
- Announcement
- November 26, 2019