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The Journey to Belonging

Nearly 38 million people worldwide have fled their countries as refugees for safety. Many are rebuilding lives in our communities. This World Refugee Awareness Month, will you extend your hand to help?

Today, over 122 million people around the world have been forced to leave their home. About 47 million of them are children.
These families are fleeing for their lives, praying for their safety and desperately seeking refuge. If you're like us, you believe that everyone deserves safety and security, a place to call home. And you want to do something to help.
The good news is, you can.
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Donation frequency: MonthlyOnce

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$25/mo over a year

can provide transportation of newly arrived individuals to medical appointments

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$50/mo over a year

can provide support for 3 refugees to find jobs so they can provide for their families

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$100/mo over a year

provides legal assistance for 12 immigrants as they walk their pathway to citizenship

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$25

can provide English learning materials and workbooks for refugees and other immigrants

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$100

can provide a welcome kit containing kitchen supplies, bedding, hygiene and other household items to a newly arrived family

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$1000

can partially furnish a refugee family’s new home, including beds, tables and living room furniture

At World Relief, we’ve welcomed, advocated for and helped integrate over 500,000 forcibly displaced immigrants to communities all across our nation, including here in Durham and the Triangle since 2007. And we’ve done so with the help of bold and compassionate women and men just like you.

Provide Vital Services

Provide Vital Services

We provide newly arrived refugees and other immigrants with access to basic necessities and begin them on the journey to belonging through educational services like financial literacy and English classes, training in public transportation, [immigration legal services/employment services] and more.

Build Just and Welcoming Communities

Build Just and Welcoming Communities

We strive to build welcoming communities here in the U.S. and engage in the associated advocacy and public policy efforts that allow refuge for all those forced to flee their homes.

Bring People Together

Bring People Together

We connect churches and community members with immigrant families to foster transformative relationships, where both new and long-term community members flourish and find a sense of unity and belonging

Together, we can make Durham and the Triangle some of the most welcoming communities on the planet. Will you join us?

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Seeing what World Relief was doing, I thought — thank God something is happening. There is still goodness in the world. World Relief is changing lives.

Kristen Willerer

Donor

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I don’t know what we would have done without [our caseworker]. Before we got to World Relief, it felt like no one cared.

Olga

Daughter of Ukranian Refugee

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