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IRIS Run for Refugees

Sun February 9, 2025 New Haven, CT 06511 US
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The Yale Pediatric Refugee Clinic aims to provide a medical home for refugees arriving in the Greater New Haven area and to promote clinical innovation, education and research in refugee health care. For residents choosing to become a refugee clinic team member, the clinic aims to provide pediatric and medicine-pediatric residents with an in-depth clinical experience combined with didactics, research, health literacy and advocacy projects to become leaders in pediatric refugee health care.

IRIS helps close to 2,000 refugees and immigrants each year.  During the pandemic, IRIS helped more than 120 refugees and immigrants find work, provided $200,000 in rental assistance, taught students English, art, and music, helped adults with immigration legal needs, and fed 300+ families per week with essential groceries from our food pantry.

The mission of IRIS is to enable refugees, immigrants, and other displaced people to establish new lives, regain hope, and contribute to the vitality of Connecticut’s communities. Refugees are men, women and children who fled their countries of origin due to persecution on the basis of their race, nationality, religious belief, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. 

Currently, IRIS’s clients come from Syria, Afghanistan, Congo, Cuba, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, Iran, Iraq, Sudan and other countries. IRIS provides families with housing, food, clothing, and services such as education, English training, job preparation and placement, health care, and immigration legal aid. 

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