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We Need Your Vote!

Vote for World Relief! The City of Durham is allowing YOU to decide where $1 Million of the city’s budget will go and World Relief Durham is on the ballot. From now until June 6th, you have the chance to vote and support refugee and immigrant youth in a way that has never been done before - only 13 days left! You can find World Relief under “Children, Youth, and Families."

Vote now!

United Way of the Greater Triangle Youth Services Grant

Our Refugee and Immigrant Youth Services team is overjoyed to be a grant recipient from the United Way of the Greater Triangle! We're celebrating the tremendous privilege of partnering with UWGT to tackle the many dimensions of inequity faced by refugee and other immigrant youth. This much-needed funding will empower foreign-born youth with culturally and linguistically informed academic tutoring, social-emotional learning, community integration, and mental health support. For more information on UWGT's community-driven nonprofit selection process and the incredible nonprofits working to eradicate poverty in the Triangle, see this press release.

No Longer Strangers: Transforming Evangelism with Immigrant Communities
 

World Relief Durham is excited to announce the publication of a book shepherded by our Office Director Adam Clark and featuring contributions from immigration and resettlement experts from World Relief, theologians, and pastors (including The Summit Church's KJ Hill!). These diverse voices lay out a vision for a healthier evangelism that can honor the most vulnerable—many of whom have lived through trauma, oppression, persecution, and the effects of colonialism—while foregrounding the message of the gospel. Part of the proceeds from No Longer Strangers benefit World Relief Durham's work! World Relief is also hosting a virtual book club beginning July 8. Learn more and register HERE
Buy No Longer Strangers

Immigration Legal Services Update

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it would no longer be detaining immigrants at two jails in Georgia and Massachusetts both known for a history of abuses against migrants. At one of the facilities, the Irwin County Detention Center in rural Georgia, immigrant women were reportedly subjected to unwanted gynecological procedures, including forced hysterectomies. While federal officials mainly chose to close both jails due to an under-enrollment of detainees, DHS stated that recent investigations into the treatment of migrants at these facilities also factored into the decision.

World Relief Durham and several community partners advocated for detainees in both Georgia detention facilities by writing letters to the ICE director in Georgia. We called for better treatment of detainees and insisted on the release of immigrants due to the COVID-19 pandemic and you spoke in support via advocacy letters - thank you! 

RISE Camp Counselors needed!

We're looking forward to World Relief Durham's Third Annual Summer Enrichment Program for refugee youth (K-8)! The goal of our camps is to provide refugee & immigrant youth with opportunities to combat summer learning loss. HERE is a detailed description of both camps. Want to learn more or begin the volunteer onboarding process? Contact RIYS Manager Rob Callus: rcallus@wr.org. 

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