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Over the past five years I’ve volunteered with ̽����ѡ in various ways. One of my most intense experiences was spending two weeks at Fort Bliss, one of the U.S. landing sites for Afghan evacuees after the fall of Kabul. I want to share a few highlights from my experience and give you an inside look at what it means to work and walk alongside ̽����ѡ staff and clients.

Amen Koutowogbe joined the team at the ̽����ѡ in Salt Lake City as an intern in 2020, connected by One Refugee.

New York and New Jersey offer high quality and low-cost immigration legal services catered to the local communities ̽����ѡ serves. Learn more about these critical services below.

On October 10, the Department of Homeland Security proposed a policy change that would make it much more difficult for immigrants building new lives in the United States to access health care, find housing, or feed their families.

The ̽����ѡ in Seattle joins Mayor Jenny Durkan, Councilmember Lorena González, and others in opposing the Administration's new asylum rules denying safe haven to people fleeing violence and persecution.

A compact agreement is an innovative model for bringing together donors, development and humanitarian agencies, the private sector, and civil society under host-country leadership to achieve sustainable outcomes for refugees and host communities. We offer three key principles and 10 recommendations for policymakers to build effective compacts for refugee-hosting nations.

Learn more about GenR: NY's recent Leadership Committee meeting

Thanks to First Responders First, we've expanded mental health support for frontline workers like Wende, who teaches refugees in the U.S. English and job skills.