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What are Your Cultural Values?

October 3, 2024 | Comments Off on What are Your Cultural Values?
Former refugee meets with World Relief extended services case manager.

Cultural values simply describe how individuals prefer to navigate life, complete tasks and interact with others. These values vary greatly between age groups, religions and countries of origin.

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Former refugee meets with World Relief extended services case manager.

What are Your Cultural Values?

October 3, 2024

Cultural values simply describe how individuals prefer to navigate life, complete tasks and interact with others. These values vary greatly between age groups, religions and countries of origin.

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A father hugs his children at the airport.

Welcome. Happy. Blessed. Healed.

September 26, 2024

Joel Arriaga, Director of Resettlement at World Relief Spokane, shares how first impressions make refugees feel happy, blessed and healed.

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Two women welcome each other with smiles on their faces.

One Smile. One Meal. One Welcome.

September 20, 2024

Hospitality isn’t about well-decorated homes and matching dishes. Hospitality is about opening our lives and our homes to someone in need of a sense of welcome and belonging.

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Cross cultural friends talking in a park

We Are All Connected

September 12, 2024

Nearly 120 million people have been forced to flee their homes around the world due to violence, persecution, economic collapse, natural disasters, famine and drought. (UNHCR Global Trends) It is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. What has that got to do with you?

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In the Media

Balinda and KHQ reporter

Democratic Republic of Congo refugee joins Spokane Police Department

April 10, 2024

Balinda Kizombo is a proud volunteer of the Spokane Police Department Reserve Unit. He graduated from the academy last fall.

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Hoa stands in an airport holding a photograph of her father.

‘My real family’: Vietnamese woman who long suspected American parentage finds relatives through Spokane Amerasian group

March 25, 2024

Hoa Tran knew nothing about her parents for most of her life, only that she looked different from other Vietnamese people.

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Press Releases

Spokane Valley New Building at Redwood

World Relief Spokane increases resettlement capacity in response to global displacement crisis

August 31, 2023

August 30, 2023 – Spokane, WA – With more than 110 million people forced to flee their homes worldwide due…

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World Relief Promotes Refugee Resettlement Efforts in Spokane and Advocates for Greater Community Engagement

March 10, 2023

Matthew Soerens, Vice President for Advocacy and Policy at World Relief and coauthor of Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion and…

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World Relief Mobilizes to Provide Immediate Support to Devastated Communities in Wake of Turkey and Syria Earthquake

February 7, 2023

February 7, 2023 CONTACT:Pinkston Teamwr@pinkston.co Baltimore, Md. – In the wake of a devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, World…

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