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refugees
RefugeeConnect’s World Refugee Day Soccer Tournament Brings The Community Together
In 2011 the Junior League of Cincinnati conducted a community scan of unmet needs in Greater Cincinnati and discovered a lack of coordinated services for refugees. Two years later they…
How vital are refugees to our communities?
Very much so, and Junior Leagues along with other nonprofits across the globe have stepped up to fill in the increasing needs of the newly-arrived, many from war-torn nations. The…
Nonprofits and the ‘Promise of America’
This guest post is by Junior League of Buffalo member and former AJLI President Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, who came to this country as a child with her family as Cuban…