Self-reliance for Somali refugees can be achieved through integration, fair administrative action, political will, regional cooperation and international responsibility sharing.

The interpretation team at the IRC in Salt Lake City provides essential language services for the people that we serve. With 18 languages to offer, the team provides an integral service to ensure refugees and other new Americans receiving services from the IRC and its local partners are able to effectively communicate in their preferred language. 

NYNJ Reflects on World Refugee Day

At first, Muska Haseeb, a refugee from Afghanistan, was scared to come to America. “I cried so much on the plane,” she recalls. “I didn't know anyone, didn’t speak English...how was I going to integrate?”

On April 27th, nearly 175 community humanitarians attended Journey to the Wasatch, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City’s annual spring fundraising party celebrating the journey hundreds of our refugee neighbors undergo to make their home in Utah.

Keila's story highlights the full arc of resettlement from displacement form Venezuela to hearing about MicroEnterprise Development program in Cultural Orientation, to starting up her own business with the knowledge she gained from her IRC-MED coach.

On Saturday, June 20, refugee supporters from across the state came together for the 20th annual celebration of World Refugee Day.

On Saturday November 16th, 2019, the IRC in Silver Spring hosted a Thanksgiving meal for recently-arrived refugees.