• Immigrant Youth Development

    Immigrant Youth Development

  • Access To Resources

    Access To Resources

  • DREAM Iowa Unites Hundreds of Iowa's Immigrant Youth

    DREAM Iowa Unites Hundreds of Iowa's Immigrant Youth

  • Iowa Businesses Support DREAM Iowa

    Iowa Businesses Support DREAM Iowa

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Caren Fuentes

Caren Fuentes, one of the recipients of our Youth Leadership Summit scholarship raffle. Our annual YLS event is free and open to middle school, high school, and college aged youth. For the 2nd consecutive year, we raffled scholarships at...

Ehshee Thawber

Ehshee Thawber, one of the recipients of our Youth Leadership Summit scholarship raffle. Our annual YLS event is free and open to middle school, high school, and college aged youth. For the 2nd consecutive year, we raffled scholarships at...

Laura Roman

She is one of the recipients of our Youth Leadership Summit scholarship raffle. Our annual YLS event is free and open to middle school, high school, and college-aged youth. For the 2nd consecutive year, we raffled scholarships at this...

2020 Hall of Fame

In 2020, DREAM Iowa granted $15,000 in scholarships supporting 22 Iowa immigrant students. The non-profit awarded $10,000 through the formal application process and raffled $5000 in scholarships during DREAM Iowa’s annual Youth Leadership Summit (YLS). Youth from 33 different...

Stephany Perez Fernandez

Stephany is currently studying Elementary Education with a Minor in TESOL at the University of Northern Iowa. In her moving essay, Stephany wrote about the struggle of starting school in Iowa without knowing any English. This was a recurring...

Elodie Embala

He is currently studying Fire Science at DMACC, which is a partnering school that will MATCH recipients’ scholarships, so Elodie will receive a total of $1000 towards his education. In his passionate essay, Elodie noted that growing up in...

Leslie De La Cruz Luevano

Leslie is currently studying Accounting at DMACC, which is a partnering school that will MATCH recipients’ scholarships, so Leslie will receive a total of $1000 towards her education. In her heartfelt essay, Leslie wrote about her struggle with her...

Bahati Eleson

Bahati is currently studying Nursing at DMACC, which is a partnering school that will MATCH recipients’ scholarships, so Bahati will receive a total of $1000 towards her education. In her astounding essay, Bahati opened up about the struggles of...

Amel Bajramovic

The principal requirements for the DREAM Iowa scholarship are that the student is a high school senior or enrolled in college, demonstrates the spirit to overcome adversity, and commitment to our immigrant community. Because Amel was also present at...

Bandana Shetisural

Bandana is currently studying Pre-Med at Iowa State University. In her touching essay, Bandana wrote about the gender inequality that was prevalent in the refugee camp she grew up in, in Nepal. Despite this, Bandana wrote that her parents...