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A group of Franciscan Sisters just gave the Iowa City Catholic
Worker House a $10,000 gift to further our work helping
asylum-seekers from around the world find safety in the United States.
Their award is a testament and recognition of the quality of the
services we have demonstrated and our good work to date sponsoring
refugees and helping them rebuild their lives in Iowa.
In the last two years, we have housed dozens of women and
children from all over the world. We work closely with human rights
groups on the border to win freedom for asylum-seekers being held in detention camps, reunite them
with their families if possible, and help them find a new home here
in the U.S., starting in our sanctuary community in Iowa City.
Ten thousand dollars is a great start to all the new work that
is currently in front of us, but we need you to give today –
anything you can – to match this single gift as a collective
response from our entire Catholic Worker House community.
With all of your gifts combined, we want to match the $10,000
the Franciscan Sisters have so generously and prayerfully bestowed
upon us to serve the immigrant and the stranger in our midst. Your
gifts will allow us to do the following:
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Mount a robust asylum legal defense for a Honduran widow and
her disabled son, who fled the country last year on foot with the
Migrant Caravan.
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Pay legal fees for an expecting El Salvadoran mother so she
can stay in the country with her baby, who will be born a U.S.
citizen any day now; as well as for her husband, who was deported
to Mexico after they were both detained at the border.
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Sponsorship costs to free several Honduran men from the
detention camps at the border. These young men are all married but
were forcibly separated from their wives, have strong asylum
cases, and verifiably good characters.
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Other costs and expenses associated with refugee sponsorship
and resettlement, including 1) transitional housing, 2) medical
and prenatal care, 3) education and school enrollment, 4) English
tutoring, 5) extracurricular activities, 6) transportation, 7)
culturally-appropriate food and clothing, 8) religious services,
and more.
- General support for all aspects of the hospitality ministry that makes our refugee sponsorship possible, including maintaining and upgrading our historic Victorian home, Free Little Food Pantry, weekend soup kitchen, and open house, drop-in center hours.
Will you join the Franciscan Sisters’ prayerful and powerful
witness on World Refugee Day and give today?
Please donate now - and know that your gifts will be stewarded
in the fashion we have already
demonstrated to help these refugee brothers and sisters in Christ.
God bless you,
Emily Sinnwell, David Goodner, and Araceli Benitez
Moya
Trustees, Iowa City Catholic Worker House
P.O. Box
3324
Iowa City, Iowa 52244
www.iowacitycatholicworker.org
www.facebook.com/iccatholicworker
iowacitycatholicworker@gmail.com
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