New Arrival Supper Club. Emergency Fund for Afghan Families. New Family Application Form. Join the Movement Miry's List is a movement of neighbors and friends dedicated to welcoming new arrival refugee families into our community through inspired crowdsourcing solutions. See the Lists. Welcome to Miry's List - a community of welcomers using crowdsourcing and social media to connect people like you, who want to help, with families who are resettling in the United States as refugees.
Our programs are designed to ensure refugees thrive in America—whether ensuring children are enrolled in school, adults become self-reliant through employment or starting businesses, or families receive acute medical care they need to recover from trauma or illness. The IRC helps those in need to rebuild their lives and regain control of their future in their new home community. Refugees are greeted and welcomed at the airport by IRC case workers and volunteers to ensure their transition is as comfortable as possible.
The IRC also makes sure newly arrived refugees receive:. In addition to supporting refugees, the IRC also works with asylees, special immigrant visas SIVs and trafficking survivors.
Our Immigration department provides low cost assistance in applying for Permanent Resident cards, U. We also provide Citizenship and Financial Literacy classes at public libraries throughout Los Angeles, available free of charge to immigrants throughout the area. Donate : Give a tax-deductible financial contribution either via the website or sent to our office. Target Wish-list: Help provide a warm welcome by donating urgently needed household items for newly arrived refugees.
We also accept gift cards as, and have plenty of Welcome Kit ideas. Volunteer Process and Opportunities : Read the steps you need to go through to become an IRC volunteer and see our current list of volunteer opportunities here. Internship Opportunities : See our current list of internship opportunities here.
Spread the Word : Consider hosting your own Fundraising Campaign on- or offline. Stay connected via our newsletter, follow us on Facebook, and ask others to do the same!
Other Ways to Get Involved : Employ refugees and help connect us to affordable housing options. We have a variety of opportunities for your group. Some options include gift card drives, apartment makeovers and creating welcome kits.
Please note: all opportunities depend on your group and the current needs of our clients. Once they acclimate to their new environment, refugees often thrive and contribute to their communities, building careers, purchasing homes and becoming citizens.
The Emergency Housing Fund will directly support recently arrived refugees with emergency housing and rental support. Help us welcome our new neighbors and donate today.
The International Rescue Committee IRC in Los Angeles is working alongside communities and partners to support Afghans living in Southern California and ensure a warm welcome for those families soon to arrive in the coming weeks and months. Here are four ways you can help. Our staff and volunteers are committed to making sure people suffering persecution can find solace and security in our neighborhoods. Organizations based in California and international organizations that have offices in Los Angeles are looking for volunteers, donated supplies and monetary donations for newly arriving Afghan refugees.
What it does: The Los Angeles-based organization relies on crowdsourcing and social media to connect people with a new refugee family whose needs might not be entirely met by the organizations that sponsor them.
Miry's List supports families with temporary housing, emergency supplies, rides to appointments and more. The organization works with new arrival families all over the U.
How you can help: When a newly arrived refugee family is in their first home, apartment or motel room, Miry's List staff will meet them and create a prioritized list of supplies.
A volunteer compiles the wish list online to share with their network, ensures the family's list needs are met and adds new items as needed. You can help by purchasing an item on the list or volunteering as a list-maker. Miry's List is also looking for volunteers who can offer services such as tutoring, translating, fundraising, providing transportation for newly settled families and writing welcome letters.
Learn more about available volunteer opportunities and how to get involved here. The organization is looking for donated items such as toiletries, baby rash cream, baby wipes, small home tool kits, infant and children's acetaminophen, new infant and children's clothing, art supplies, socks for children and adults, first aid kits, and English to Farsi dictionaries.
If you would like to contribute to the welcome kits, email welcome miryslist. What it does: International Rescue Committee has been providing humanitarian aid and relief in Afghanistan since Stanford Prescott, the network communications officer for the organization, said all of the offices are currently serving recently arrived Afghan refugees and Afghans with special immigrant visas.
The Los Angeles office has welcomed more than 90 Afghan refugees in recent months and anticipates many more. How you can help: It's looking for donations of household and infant items directly through the regional office's Amazon and Target wish lists.
If you have an empty room in your home that can be used for emergency temporary housing, the International Rescue Committee's partner Airbnb's Open Homes Program allows you to host an individual or family in need.
If you're a landlord willing to rent to recently arrived refugees, you can volunteer by contacting carly. The campaign's goals were surpassed, so new donations will be used to support other Afghan refugees. The university and its partners are also working to quickly secure housing placement for a law school dean and, with Scholars at Risk — an international network organization that supports academic freedom — bring others to the university to secure housing in the Bay Area.
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