Our Love and Awareness Week is focused on
educating students about our club and charity. Our goal is to create a greater
awareness through giving and discovering more effective ways of serving our
community. In coordination with Oak Ridge High School's Project Citizen,
put on by the History Department, we are taking part by bringing in
speakers from World Relief Sacramento as well as two refugees who will be
sharing their story. Please come and join us on the evening of
Tuesday, March 7th @ 6:00 in room B 3.
Speakers Bio:
*Elissa Tutupoly from World Relief
Sacramento will be able to give a summary of who refugees are, what
trials they have overcome, the process of coming into the US, what
they face when they get here and ways to become involved in service.
*Mustafa and Ali are refugees who arrived
into the U.S. as Special Immigrant Visa holders. While the screening process of
their entry remains the same as any other refugee, the difference is that their
referral of admission into the U.S. was by the U.S. military. The Department of
State created a Visa program available to persons who worked with the U.S.
Armed Forces or under the Chief of Mission authority as a translator or
interpreter in Iraq or Afghanistan. These persons have provided loyal and
valuable service to the U.S Armed Forces, but as a result have experienced
serious threat. The World Relief Sacramento office resettled the largest number
of SIV cases of any World Relief office in the nation in 2016. Come join us in
hearing the story of Mustafa's and Ali’s journey here!
