April is National Volunteer Month and the IRC is grateful for our network of over 250 volunteers and interns each year. Last year our volunteers contributed 23,304 hours of labor, the equivalent to over 11 full-time staff members. This month we are featuring an interview with our Logistics and Casework Intern, Keshet Benschikovski, a student at American University’s School of International Service, as she shares why she's proud to work with the IRC in Maryland.

Peggy is a housing set-up volunteer who loves collecting things for the community

Meet Averil Loucks from the IRC in Denver. After working in the humanitarian sector across the globe, she's back home in Colorado, making a difference one day at a time.

An instructor at a non-profit that teaches skateboarding to children, Belqisa’s dreams of pro competition were put on hold when she had to escape Afghanistan. Now she’s seizing a chance for a new start.

This past November, the IRC joined with community partners and leaders in Dallas to share a Thanksgiving meal with refugee families.

Luanne and Elsa – two friends from Lake Forest Park, WA – are on a mission to change the world, one welcome mat at a time.

The IRC in Kansas Refugee Co-Sponsorship Program is a new way for local community groups, religious institutions, and others to get involved and welcome refugees to Kansas.

Goldman Sachs’ employees learned about IRC in Salt Lake City women’s empowerment programming and held a month-long donation drive in honor of Women’s History Month to support newly resettled refugees in our community.