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The Refugee Center was recently spotlighted in “Market to Market”, produced by Iowa PBS. The video focuses on the history of the center...

Who is a refugee? A refugee is a person who is forced to flee his or her home country due to persecution or a well-founded fear of being...

Lisa Wilson, along with other refugee rights advocates, Abubakr Meah and Arthur Wright, discuss the current state of Afghanistan under...

On her Saturday mornings, Ha Ho, the Refugee Center's Director of Client Services, serves immigrant children through our Saturday Morning...

During a recent three-month period, The Refugee Center assisted with 59 application for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),...

Four round trips between Champaign to Chicago is 1098 miles. 1,000 steps on your Fitbit is about half a mile. Put together, the...