about tiarc
Tucson International Alliance of Refugee Communities, Inc. (TIARC) is a Mutual Assistance Association (MAA).
Our services include interpretation and translation, driver training, English as second language classes, computer classes, notary public, citizenship classes for refugees 60 years of age or older, case management for our elderly clients, and we offer jobs acquisition help.
We also provide information about mainstream refugee assistance organizations, and act as a liason between the local community and newly arrived refugee groups. Together with Honors College at University of Arizona we provide in home tutoring to children and their families.
Members of Vietnamese, former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, Laos, and Angolan refugee communities organized TIARC in the summer of 1995, with the assistance of the Pima County Adult Education Program. The group came together with the purpose of helping refugees adjust to their new lives in the United States.
Tucson International Alliance of Refugee Communities, Inc. (TIARC) was incorporated as a non profit 501 (3) c in March of 1997.
TIARC is currently serving refugees from Vietnam, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Cuba, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Former Soviet Union, Sudan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Romania, Liberia, Burundi, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Burma, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kosovo and we are looking forward to serve refugees from Burma and Bhutan as they come to Tucson.
