Today, it is estimated that over 120 million people around the world have been forced to leave their home. More than 47 million of these people 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.
$25/mo over a year
can provide transportation of newly arrived individuals to medical appointments
$50/mo over a year
can provide support for 3 refugees to find jobs so they can provide for their families
$125/mo over a year
helps a refugee family furnish their first home in the U.S.
$25
can provide English learning materials and workbooks for refugees and other immigrants
$100
can provide a welcome kit containing kitchen supplies, bedding, hygiene and other household items to a newly arrived family
$1000
can partially furnish a refugee family’s new home, including beds, tables and living room furniture
For over 80 years, across 100 countries we’ve been coming alongside families displaced by violence, poverty and injustice – both in the U.S. and across the world. We operate with interconnected solutions and wrap-around care that has true power to create change that lasts.
Together with you, we have seen our communities flourish in Spokane:
Welcomed nearly 12,000 refugees and other new arrivals since 1992.
Recruited 216 volunteers to be the hands and feet of Jesus
Mobilized 54 churches to love their neighbor
Received needed in-kind goods and services valuing over $250,000
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 Spokane since 1992. And we’ve done so with the help of bold and compassionate women and men just like you.
Together, we can make Spokane one of the most welcoming communities on the planet. Will you join us?
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
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
The latest news from World Relief Spokane
Inspired by her own journey, a former immigrant, now a U.S. citizen, seeks to create a sense of belonging for refugees.
Ensaf was taken aback when she learned about refugee resettlement. Is there a place that helps people settle in and find stability here? A spark ignited within her. “Wow! I need to help people with an organization like World Relief.”
Staff at World Relief Spokane share why they are thankful for the impact of volunteers
This week, we’re sharing stories from our staff – the real, raw, and beautiful stories – of how lives were changed, and hope was rekindled; how our refugee neighbors found a sense of belonging because of the people who welcomed them – especially volunteers. These stories remind us why we do what we do.
Volunteers at World Relief says that serving is “based on the faith that we have.”
Nothing could have prepared Jana and Roger Dorway when they encountered a weary African family draped over the chairs at the Salt Lake City Airport. The father carried a UNHCR bag, a sure sign they were refugees.
