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Deseret News: The way home
“These families don’t want a better life, they just want a normal life without the sirens, the rockets and the explosions waking people up in the middle of the night,” said Yurii Slepak, a Kyiv native and country manager for WelcomeNST. “Our job here is to find the people that will benefit the most from this program.”
Deseret News: A nonprofit’s relatively simple answer to America’s complex immigration system: Be a neighbor
“These families don’t want a better life, they just want a normal life without the sirens, the rockets and the explosions waking people up in the middle of the night,” said Yurii Slepak, a Kyiv native and country manager for WelcomeNST. “Our job here is to find the people that will benefit the most from this program.”
Neighbors join forces to support Ukrainian refugee family
For the past six months, Ukrainians Olena, her mother Valentyna and her 1-year-old daughter have been staying in a shelter in the war-torn country after their home was destroyed in the first wave of destruction after Russia’s invasion.
At Clinton Global Initiative, Welcome.US Announces Commitment to Engage 50,000 More Americans in Sponsoring Refugees Over Next Three Years
Alight, Church World Service, Community Sponsorship Hub, HIAS, International Rescue Committee, REACT DC, The Shapiro Foundation, Migration and Refugee Services/United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and WelcomeNST to bring unique expertise to support resettlement work
New model to enlist regular Americans to resettle refugees
SAN DIEGO (AP) — When nearly 80,000 Afghans arrived in the United States, refugee resettlement agencies quickly became overwhelmed, still scrambling to rehire staff and reopen offices after being gutted as the Trump administration dropped refugee admissions to a record low.