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Goldman Sachs’ employees learned about ̽����ѡ in Salt Lake City women’s empowerment programming and held a month-long donation drive in honor of Women’s History Month to support newly resettled refugees in our community.

As a way of tackling the ongoing displacement crisis, the ̽����ѡ is focusing on community engagement to help with the integration of resettled refugees into our local communities, through a new Community Sponsorship model called the HOME (Housing, Orientation, Mentoring, Education) program.

. In May, a group of women from the Women’s relief Society from the LDS Church in Wichita came to the ̽����ѡ where they met with ̽����ѡ staff, toured our office and were able to learn more about the ̽����ѡ and the work that is done to help refugees resettling in Wichita. After their meeting they presented the ̽����ѡ with a stack of cheery and bright colored quilts and baby blankets for refugees resettling in Wichita.

In a significant collaboration, the Qatar Fund For Development (QFFD) and the ̽����ѡ (̽����ѡ) launched a new project to provide primary healthcare services to more than 23,000 Syrian refugees in Za’atari Refugee Camp. This initiative, set to extend for approximately two and a half years, marks a critical step towards addressing the urgent healthcare needs of the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp.

For the second year in a row, the ̽����ѡ in Wichita partnered with Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) and Wichita State University SHIFTSPACE Gallery to host the #WelcomeHome art exhibit. The exhibit featured art created by refugees recently resettled in Wichita.

A refugee casework intern talks of his experience interning with the ̽����ѡ in Silver Spring.