Project:  To assist in identifying and planning fund raising projects and community efforts.  These  will provide continual financial support to meet the monthly obligations for rent, utilities, medical, dental, school, for the refugees in our area of support.

Benefits:  Gives the refugees a foothold in their new country, as they struggle to become self sufficient.

Community impact:  Adding  people who are productive and contributors towards building a better community.

Helpful information for consideration:  Presently, as “Humanitarian Parole” legal entrants to USA, they are not permitted to work.  In order to be accumulated into the US, the adults are attending evening English classes and weekly occupational training for potential employment. They made applications for status changes from “parole” or “tourist” to obtain properly documented work VISAS. This is the beginning of their journey towards US Citizenship.

Your generosity with the refugee family is exceptional as today’s world is too often a “selfish world”.  Especially, unfortunate in the US.  Everyone is thankful to you, especially the family as they basically have nothing but those who reach out to help them in a strange country.  Can you imagine being in Kyiv and knowing no one and having nothing and needing something?  So, you probably don’t realize how much this means to them and to us. 

Again, it’s a new year for new things and new happenings.