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Church World Service (CWS) has recently opened an office in Durham. Their mission is to place immigrant, refugee families
in Durham and Raleigh. Refugees, by definition, leave their native countries because of persecution and threat of imprisonment
or harm to themselves and/or their families. They arrive to their local apartments with little but the clothes on their backs.
CWS partners with local churches to help provide and furnish housing and to assimilate the refugees into our society.
How can you help?
CWS needs volunteers to help the new families learn English and assimilate to life here in NC. Time commitments can be a
little or a lot, on a one-time or continuing basis. For example, you could invite a new family's children to play with your
children at the park, or you could help a family learn how to use the bus system. For more information on CWS, contact Joanna
Schiestl at 919-680-4310 or jschiestl@churchworldservice.org.
The mission of the NRUMC Refugee Resettlement Mission is to collect household furnishings for these families to use in
their new homes. You can support this mission by donating household furnishings. Needed furnishings include furniture,
beds, bedding, tables, chairs, dishes, flatware, toys, small TVs- pretty much anything you might sell at a yard sale.
This is great opportunity to free up storage space at your house for a very worthy cause. Donations are tax deductible,
and we will pick them up.
Please contact Barbara Bays 676-8293, or bmbays@surfree.com or David Robinson
414-0929, or dsrobins123@msn.com for more information. You may also go
to http://www.signupgenius.com/go/113 to list any goods you would like to
have picked up. Next pick up dates will be on Sat. March 13 and Sat. March 27.
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