In September Students from Goddard Eisenhower High School began collecting hygiene supplies and household cleaning supplies for the IRC and will continue collecting these supplies throughout their school year.

Celebrate the holiday season by empowering newly-arrived refugee families with the gift of choice: donate gift cards to the IRC in Boise!

NYNJ Reflects on World Refugee Day

In the 1600s, a group of writers collaborated on a historical play called Sir Thomas More. The script included one of the earliest and most impassioned defenses of a compassionate refugee policy, an extract known as The Strangers’ Case, widely believed to be written by William Shakespeare.

Over 30 years ago, Sudan’s civil war uprooted 20,000 Sudanese children. They were known as the Lost Boys.

Ritiek (Reh - teek), her mom, and her younger sister were one of the many families forced to flee Afghanistan in 1995. Four years later, they were welcomed in Tucson, Arizona in the summer of 1999. She and her family were the first Afghan refugees to be resettled in Tucson, Arizona. 

Updates on the IRC in Charlottesville's car donation program.