We Partner with Refugee and Immigrant Families
A refugee is a person who: "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership or a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country..."
1951 Convention Relating to the status of refugees.
In other words, refugees are people who have been forced to flee their homeland
Today, there are an estimated 26 million refugees in the world. Though the numbers fluctuate from year to year, the U.S. Government permits between 50,000-85,000 refugees to resettle in America each year.