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Refugee and Community Services

Departmental Programs:
Refugee Reception and Placement
Match Grant
Employment
Translation and Interpreter Services

Departmental email RCS@NationalitiesService.org
Director: POSITION OPEN

WAYS YOU CAN HELP REFUGEES

  1. Volunteer your own foreign language skills with NSC to help at your local courthouse, hospital, fire/police department, school, or community center. Written translation and/or oral interpretation is desperately needed in many situations. Click on "Translation and Interpreter Services" above.
  2. Drive a refugee to medical appointments or to job interviews
  3. Offer to take a refugee with you to your next sports event, concert, or movie
  4. Take a refugee to your local library and help him or her get a library card
  5. If you are a CPA, help refugees prepare their taxes
  6. Volunteer to teach an English as a Second Language class. Click here for Education Volunteer opportunities
  7. Offer to teach computer skills (at any level) to refugees
  8. Donate old computers to refugees
  9. Donate professional clothing - Contact Jackie Henderson 215-893-8400 x 120 or email JHenderson@NationalitiesService.org
  10. Take a refugee family on a picnic to a state park or recreation center
  11. Write your congressional representative in support of refugee programs. Click here to write to your representative even if you are not sure who that is.