Discover Ways to Help Refugees Today
Our goal is to help you find uplifting and rewarding volunteer opportunities with the Utah refugee community. Volunteers play a vital role in helping refugees feel welcome.
Whether it’s your time, skills, or resources, your service with Utah Refugee Connection helps meet real needs and creates lasting change. Together, we can make a meaningful impact and build a community where everyone thrives.
We All Have Something to Give
Serving Is Easier Than You Think
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How to Help Refugees in Your Area
It is easy to feel unsure about how to help refugees. However, it’s important to remember that even the smallest gesture can make a big difference. Utah Refugee Connection strives to make it easy for people to support the refugee community. Whether you are giving your time, skills, or money, we have a variety of volunteer opportunities tailored to your situation.
Wondering Where to Start?
It’s easier than you think to start making a difference in the lives of refugees.
- Organize a donation drive
- Attend a refugee cultural night
- Assemble hygiene kits
- Help a family with groceries
- Volunteer as a youth mentor
- Become an English tutor
There Are Many Ways to Give
Giving isn’t just financial—it encompasses sharing time, talents, and resources to make the world a better place.
- Volunteer at a refugee event
- Assemble back-to-school kits
- Teach sewing skills
Opportunities To Serve
Attend a Refugee Cultural Night
These engaging evenings are an incredible way to learn from our refugee neighbors. Speakers with refugee backgrounds will share their stories, inviting us to look more deeply into our communities and build supportive, lasting connections.
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Service Project
These service projects are great opportunities for workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, and other organizations that want to make a positive impact. It’s as simple as choosing a kit type from our Give page and organizing the efforts to get the necessary items donated, assembled, and delivered!
Refugee Youth Mentor
Choosing to be a youth mentor is a powerful way to connect with a young refugee in need. You will be matched with a recently-arrived mentee, from late elementary to high school age, for a year. Your role as a mentor is simply to be a friend! Help them adjust to a new cultural environment, discover and develop their strengths, and engage with others and the community in positive ways through meaningful activities.
This opportunity is best suited for individuals over 21 and requires a background check to help ensure a positive, healthy environment for all.
[email protected]
Youth Tutor
Catholic Community Services
Youth tutors will have the chance to support a refugee child’s educational efforts as they navigate online learning. You will be matched to a student through our Refugee Foster Care program or our Refugee Resettlement department based on your skillset and the child’s needs. Ages of the children tutored can range from early elementary to high school.
We are now recruiting volunteers to begin volunteering in this capacity in late summer and early fall. Volunteers may be matched sooner based on client needs..
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Teach English and Other Skills
English Skills Learning Center
The ESL Center provides free and specialized English and skill-based classes to adult language learners with the goal of boosting confidence and enhancing opportunities. Classes are taught by highly trained volunteers under the supervision of the ESL Center's professional staff and are held in locations convenient for students.
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Eagle Scout Project
We love it when Eagle Scout candidates want to help make a difference for refugees. To start a project, please review and print the PDF below and then call (801)-871-5903 with any questions. Per the request of Boy Scouts of America, Scouts must call and organize their own project, and please have a parent or scout leader present when you call.
Call 801-871-5903 or Email
[email protected]
Eagle Scout Requirements List
Sewing Teacher Volunteers
Refugee Education and Training Center
This exciting sewing program continues to grow as we seek to teach students skills ranging from basic sewing and needlework to more advanced alterations—talents that serve all communities. Our brand new curriculum begins a new cohort this January, and your support will make a huge impact on these women.
Email: [email protected]
Volunteer Orientation
Good Samaritan Foundation
Attend an orientation with Good Samaritan Foundation. Learn about multiple programs to volunteer with and mentor refugees.
Email: [email protected]
Know Your Neighbor
SLC Mayor's Office
Mentor with the Know Your Neighbor program run by the SLC Mayor’s office. There are three different opportunities within this program: family mentoring, skills share, and program volunteers.
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Unaccompanied Minor Foster Care
Catholic Community Services
For nearly 30 years, CCS has provided specialized foster care services to hundreds of unaccompanied children from around the world. These children entered the U.S. without their parents or an adult to care for them. Learn more here.
Tuesday Morning English Language Tutors
Good Samaritan Foundation Utah
Help adults learn to communicate in the English language in a comfortable, one-to-one or small group learning environment, under the direction of a highly trained professional teacher.
Call 385-301-8257 or Email [email protected]
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New Ways to Get Involved
Check back periodically. These opportunities will change according to needs in the local refugee community. If you are a refugee provider and are interested in adding an opportunity, email us at the address below.
[email protected]