Transforming Lives, One Child at a Time

Our Mission:

At Refugee Resources, we serve refugee families in Dallas, Texas, sharing the transformative hope of the Gospel by meeting both physical and spiritual needs.

The Reading Circle equips students and their families with foundation literacy skills while fostering meaningful, Christ - centered mentor relationships.

It is structured to provide our students with individualized instruction from a consistent weekly mentor/literacy coach. Students are informally assessed by his/her mentor and shared with the student as they progress through the decodable books, oral fluency and leveled readers. Each students’ progress is monitored through the program.

The Preschool Circle is a nurturing, weekly program designed for refugee children ages 2-5. Through themed play and caring mentorship, we build early literacy, math, motor, and school readiness skills — laying the foundation for lifelong learning.

Latest Blog - 90 Minutes at a Time

July 2021: the summer before my freshman year of high school.

My older cousin parked across the street from an apartment complex — the place where I'd be spending the next two hours earning community service hours. I looked around the neighborhood as I crossed the street. I'd sometimes driven through the Vickery Meadow area on my way to Northpark Mall, but I had never actually walked its streets. Kids in bare feet nimbly wove through cars on scooters with a hand in their pockets. A mother carried a baby in her left arm, held hands with her three-year-old on her right, and gave her third child a piggyback ride. I was only two miles east of the I-75 I frequented, but the area looked like an entirely different world to my 13-year-old eyes.

I pushed open the front door of the first-floor lobby. The room buzzed with fluorescent lights overhead and kids squealing as they played tag around tables. Ms. Alysa greeted me at the door and sat me down for orientation. She explained the structure: read the Bible story of the week, give the student a timed literacy check, sprinkle in a decodable or two, and maybe open the grammar workbook if they were up for it.

The orientation took 20 minutes. That's it? Am I qualified to teach now? I scanned the room. Some students were my age. Probably older than me. Definitely taller than me.