Refugee Dream Center

Refugee Dream Center Mission
The Refugee Dream Center is established to create opportunities within the refugee community to facilitate their resettlement process in the U.S.

Healthcare Education & Orientation Program

The Refugee Dream Center, Inc. provides education and cultural orientation on healthcare. This summer, the Center is engaged in offering basic healthcare education to refugee families from different countries of origin. The program focuses on primary care operations, mental health and cultural barriers such as stigma and idioms of distress. Refugees are taught about dietary processes, dental services, importance of keeping doctor’s appointments, not sharing medication, continuity in taking medication as prescribed, exercise, and general coping tools for stress and adjustment related issues. Youth Role Modelling Program: Refugee Youth Dream

This program focuses primarily on targeting teens and young adults. Refugee youth are specifically faced with a number of challenges due to acculturation pressure and educational gaps. The Refugee Youth Dream program engages such youth in meaningful activities geared towards improving their social functioning skills, prevent truancy, enhance entrance into college, prevent gangs and gang-related violence, and receive mentorship. These activities include the utilization of speeches, poetry, music, field trips, and art to inspire young people towards achieving. Youth are also supported in school and homework related needs. Refugee Adult Literacy & Job Readiness

This program includes training refugee adults in English as a Second Language (ESL), job and interview skills training, cultural enhancement training, training in basic computer skills, and referrals for supportive services including employment prospects, housing, and related social service needs. Refugee Dream Center offers interpreting in a wide range of languages via Refugee Interpreting Services, LLC. http://www.refugeeinterpretingservices.com

Huge thanks to Sanctuary Church for donating over 50 food and snack items to support refugee families! Your generosity h...
11/12/2025

Huge thanks to Sanctuary Church for donating over 50 food and snack items to support refugee families! Your generosity helps us fight hunger and bring hope to our community.

The Refugee Dream Center office will be closed on Veterans Day in honor of all who have served. The office will reopen ...
11/11/2025

The Refugee Dream Center office will be closed on Veterans Day in honor of all who have served. The office will reopen for normal hours on Wednesday, November 12th. We thank our veterans for their courage and sacrifice. 🇺🇸

Huge thanks to Brown Refugee Tutoring for donating over 700 snack and food items to the Refugee Dream Center food pantry...
11/10/2025

Huge thanks to Brown Refugee Tutoring for donating over 700 snack and food items to the Refugee Dream Center food pantry! In tough times like these, we’re thankful for strong community partners who help us keep families nourished and hopeful.

This past Friday, Refugee Dream Center held the first meeting for the Youth Program. Refugee youth (mentees) were able t...
11/10/2025

This past Friday, Refugee Dream Center held the first meeting for the Youth Program. Refugee youth (mentees) were able to meet their new mentors and they got to know each other over the 2 hour meeting. With this program, we intend to build and develop leadership skills in our refugee youth, aid in emotional development and well-being, and maintain self-confidence through engaging activities and events. , , MENTOR Rhode Island

Deka a single mom of 4, fled Somalia after years of drought and hunger. She found safety in the U.S. in 2024 — but when ...
11/04/2025

Deka a single mom of 4, fled Somalia after years of drought and hunger. She found safety in the U.S. in 2024 — but when the recent government shutdown hit, her support vanished overnight, and now she is facing the same dire situation in the United States as she did in Somalia.

Her $1,000 in food stamps and $900 in cash assistance were cut to zero. Now, she relies on Refugee Dream Center for food and assistance (RDC) just to feed her kids and keep a roof over their heads.
“Without the RDC, we’d have nothing,” she says.

You can help. Your donation to the RDC provides food, rent, and hope for refugee families starting over.

➡️ Give today at the link below to stand with Deka and mothers like her.

https://www.mightycause.com/donate/Refugee-Dream-Center

This week, students from the Refugee Resettlement course at Bryant University visited Refugee Dream Center to interact w...
10/31/2025

This week, students from the Refugee Resettlement course at Bryant University visited Refugee Dream Center to interact with community members in ESOL class and practice informal conversations. Speaking with the college students is not only great practice for the community members, but helps them build confidence in speaking the English language.

Our beloved community member, Mamadou, who was kidnapped by ICE, had his story featured in the The Boston Globe. Journal...
10/28/2025

Our beloved community member, Mamadou, who was kidnapped by ICE, had his story featured in the The Boston Globe. Journalist Edward Fitzpatrick shared the story of how Mamadou was driving an elderly neighbor to the bakery to buy bread when ICE agents surrounded and handcuffed him.

~ Please read his full story at the link below:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/27/metro/deportation-threat-mauritanian-refugee-ri/

~ Also, please find the link to donate here:
https://chuffed.org/project/freemamadou?fbclid=IwdGRjcANuM0VjbGNrA24zNmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEe2uzREHBS3WmfcIaF1qXTS29WgR9Ew9JEChq7T_wGAxmrJbUM1BI56YuOP_k_aem_sp580VfW461nvN6IwGXNQg

Last week, Refugee Dream Center hosted Bristol County Savings Bank while they presented to the International Women's Gro...
10/28/2025

Last week, Refugee Dream Center hosted Bristol County Savings Bank while they presented to the International Women's Group about different banking topics, such as financing options, building credit, and how to avoid scams.

Refugee Dream Center, along with founder Dr. Omar Bah, were recently highlighted in Ocean State Stories. Dr. Bah told re...
10/23/2025

Refugee Dream Center, along with founder Dr. Omar Bah, were recently highlighted in Ocean State Stories. Dr. Bah told reporter G. Wayne Miller, "center staff and clients experience a combination of factors of fear. Staff sometimes are afraid, as are the community members, the clients that we serve. They were especially afraid when the new policies started but now people are freeing up a little bit and have started coming again.” Please read the full article at the link below:
https://www.oceanstatestories.org/r-i-centers-serving-refugees-and-immigrants-continue-their-work-under-new-trump-policies/

10/23/2025

Refugee Dream Center prioritizes the prompt acquisition of the English language by our community members. We take pride in providing three distinct ESOL classes: from 10am to 12pm for advanced beginners, from 12pm to 2pm for low beginners, and from 2pm to 4pm for mid-level learners, available on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

One of the valuable members of our community needs your help. ICE agents and their master, Donald Trump, continue to cau...
10/20/2025

One of the valuable members of our community needs your help. ICE agents and their master, Donald Trump, continue to cause havoc in our communities. A client of our center, and beloved Mauritanian community member, Mamadou, was arrested by ICE on Tuesday. He has since been detained without access to a lawyer. Mamadou's situation is heartbreaking because he was building a wonderful life in the US, working hard and staying out of trouble. Please donate and share with anyone who cares to help save Mamadou from Deportation. At Refugee Dream Center, we strongly oppose the kidnapping of the valuable members of our community who make their city a better place. There is no place in Providence for fear and hate. Mamadou is an asylum-seeker from Mauritania who works as a Cart Attendant at Walmart. He is deeply involved in his local masjid and the Providence refugee community as a member of Refugee Dream Center. He is constantly helping those in need in our community - in fact, when ICE kidnapped Mamadou, he was dropping an elderly neighbor at a local bakery. We are raising funds so that Mamadou can secure legal counsel and phone calls with his family while in ICE detention. Please donate at the link below, and spread the word if you can!
https://chuffed.org/project/freemamadou

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747 Broad Street
Providence, RI
02907

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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