Volunteer

Interns serve alongside staff: assisting with practical needs, gaining professional casework and communication skills, and learning about refugee resettlement and inter-cultural work. Our Resettlement and Health & Wellness Internships are highly relational, hands-on internships involving significant commitment and responsibility. We also have internships for refugee and immigrant youth.

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Host home volunteers donate a safe, comfortable space for refugees, asylees, and others in a time of transition. We are in need of three types of host homes at this time.

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Good Neighbor Teams are small groups of committed volunteers from a local church or community partner trained to walk alongside a refugee/asylee family or group of individuals for 6 months, through a combination of socially-distanced and remote interactions. Please contact us for the most current information.

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Cultural Companions walk alongside refugees and asylees with the goal of developing a mutually transformative relationship. Volunteers are matched with an individual or family and meet weekly via video call for at least 6 months, accompanied by occasional in-person meetings.

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Mentors walk alongside refugee and asylee youth, ages 18-24, developing mutually transformative relationships and working together toward life, educational, and/or career goals. Volunteers must be 25 years or older.

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Post-release volunteers welcome people as they are released from the ICE processing center in Tacoma. Volunteers greet guests, provide a place of respite, and offer assistance as the released detainee plans their next steps. All services are held outside of the detention center facility. Oftentimes volunteers provide the guest with transportation to the bus or airport.

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World Relief receives refugees, asylees, and other immigrants from all over the world every year. We believe that providing sustainable, quality care to each new arrival involves inviting community members to be a part of their resettlement process. This can look like picking up families and individuals from the airport, helping people learn how to navigate public transportation, helping refugees and asylees get settled when they first arrive in the U.S., and more.

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World Relief matches volunteers with opportunities to assist in our English classes in order to help adult refugee and immigrant students improve their English skills and equip them to navigate their new community.

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Be matched with an adult refugee or immigrant student to practice English through 1:1 tutoring that supplements their English classes and encourages their progress.

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Over 40% of the refugees and immigrants we serve are children. World Relief is providing educational and developmental opportunities that build the essential academic, personal and social skills needed to succeed. Learn more to see the variety of roles available.

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Volunteer alongside the World Relief job team to prepare refugees and immigrants for employment or support them in starting and maintaining new businesses. This position offers individual support to refugees and asylees as they apply for jobs and adjust to new work cultures and expectations.

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Do you have a passion for food? World Relief is building a team of volunteers with an interest in cooking and/or nutrition to be a part of our kitchen crew! Kitchen volunteers will be matched with opportunities to assist in our Commercial Teaching Kitchen in order to support refugee and immigrant students as they learn cooking skills, apply holistic food-centered nutrition and grow as entrepreneurs in the food industry.

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Join our community at Paradise Parking Plots Community Garden through supporting essential maintenance tasks that keep our shared space healthy, safe and vibrant! Volunteer help to ensure this shared site stays maintained and safe for gardeners to continue growing food in.

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Provide clients with service beyond the standard role descriptions that compliments a volunteer’s specific skills. This role will be built for a specific volunteer with the help of World Relief staff. Please contact us for more information.