From 1960 to 1967, the IRC helped people fleeing Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Angola, Uganda, and Nigeria. After Castro's rise to power, it soon become one of the principal agencies helping Cubans to reach America

In 2010, the IRC responded to an earthquake in Haiti that left ovor 2 million homeless. We're ready to support partners responding to the Aug 14, 2021 quake.

When millions fled Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia after the fall of Saigon, the IRC was there to help them start anew in the U.S.

When 60,000 unaccompanied children crossed the border into the United States from Central America in the summer of 2014, the IRC sought to find out why.

Armed with a new, global mandate, the IRC came to the aid of a continent struggling to transition to independence.

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