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
$100/mo over a year
provide 12 refugee children with school uniforms, backpacks and supplies for their first school 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 400,000 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
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It was a challenge from the beginning. Moving to a new country is never easy – much less so as a refugee family with only three bags of possessions and limited English. But the Villanueva family stayed open to the experience and embraced life in a new city.
Intern First Impressions: You cannot be an expert here.
Spokane is filled with people to learn about and be inspired by. Those chances are only heightened when interacting with people who come from different backgrounds.
Separated by War, United by Grace
Naomi’s family was separated from before she was aware of her own age, from before she could understand why there was war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
