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The ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ (̽»¨¾«Ñ¡) in Salt Lake City continues to support community-wide pandemic response, recently organizing a vaccine clinic with community partners to ensure 87 refugees and new Americans received the first dose of the COVID vaccine.

On Wednesday, September 29, the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in Atlanta’s Executive Director, Justin Howell, hosted a webinar briefing with our partners—Alpa Amin, Executive Director of Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network (GAIN); Marjan Nadir, Economic Empowerment Manager at Refugee Women’s Network (RWN); and Chris Purdy, Director of Veterans for American Ideals and Outreach at Human Rights First—to discuss our work and how the community can help us welcome and support new Afghan arrivals in Georgia and continue our more than 40-year history of welcoming refugees to our state.

̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Denver welcomes new Executive Director Tanya Vitusagavulu

As another caravan of Central American survivors of violence and abuse makes its way to the United States border, here’s what you need to know about the situation.  

Each year over half of the refugees resettled by the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in San Diego are children; in 2022 18% of new arrivals were under 18 years old. Having reached the US, their futures are brighter than the uncertainty, conflict and violence they left behind but as they enter the American education system, refugee youth face a unique set of barriers to academic success.

New Roots farmers grow vegetables in community gardens across Dallas. Read about a few of our growers that come back season after season.

The interpretation team at the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ 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 ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ and its local partners are able to effectively communicate in their preferred language. 

Omari and Zaina, originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, recently launched their at-home childcare business, Zaina Ngandu, bringing added support for working families in West Valley City.

The New York Times covers a Congolese refugee family resettled by the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ in Oakland and their mentor family in Oakland, California.