The Baltimore City Community College Refugee Youth Project (RYP) provides quality after-school, summer school, community arts, and mentoring programs for more than 300 students from over 17 different countries.
A refugee is someone who:
“owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.”
– The 1951 Refugee Convention