What
can we do in our community to support youth refugees who live
here, including the new youth refugees who will come in the
next year?
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Table
#1 |
Supportive.
Clubs / sports. |
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Table
#2 |
Support
them: Shelter, help, friendly, advice. Be open minded towards
them and welcome them. |
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Table
#3 |
Help
them at school. Be patient. ESL Class. Befriend them. Don’t
treat them as inferiors. |
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#5 |
Personally
interact with the refugees, etc. Start funds for families
and individuals. |
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Table
#7 |
Continue
to sponsor the programs. Peace keeping, UN Forces. Be involved.
Become a member of world wide organizations. |
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Table
#8 |
Incorporate
older refugees with the new ones. Help adapt to culture. Job
openings, let them know. |
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Table
#9 |
Inform
refugees about their rights, US Laws and typical customs.
More translation help, for parents to know what is going on
at school, newspapers, job applications. Job help programs.
Be more accepting – encourage refugees to ask questions. |
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Table
#10 |
Social
services. Simple courtesy and friendship. Joining local organizations
like the IRC. |
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Table
#12 |
Go
out of your way to help them in their understanding of our
culture, of their new life. Console them – most have
lived through trauma, have a counseling service, be more understanding. |
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Table
#13 |
Seattle
takes in a lot but not noticed because of Seattle’s diverse,
well off city and less likely for discrimination and easier
assimilation. |
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Table
#14 |
Refugee
– Support group of past refugees to give advise and
help. Make them feel welcomed and invite them to places and
make their experience better. Get to know them, talk to them
about problems and become their friend. Panel of refugees
to answer questions annually. |
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Table
#18 |
Advocate
for more federal funding. Write letters to editors and political
representatives. More church meetings, organizing letter writing.
More English tutoring, etc. After school programs. |
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What
can we do in our community to support the youth refugee problem
worldwide? |
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| Table
#1 |
Donations
and fundraisers. Volunteer work – Join Key Club. Speakers
at school. |
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#2 |
Become
aware. Media coverage. Talk to others, reach out. Open minds.
Join other groups. More foreign aid. Put more money to help.
Break divisions, make friends. |
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#3 |
Donate
money. Adoption. Direct help (Adopt a family). Bring them
here – We are a rich country. Improving upon existing
system. Neighboring countries around them should take them. |
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#5 |
Educate
and make people aware. Raise awareness in local community.
Contact organizations. Donated money or resources. Personally
interact with refugees. |
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#7 |
Better
understanding. Become educated. Reach out to meet and talk
to refugees. Being aware of the problem. Keep an open mind
to the other ways. Embrace other cultures. Don’t try
to Americanize. Americans learn other languages. Americans
make the adaptation. |
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#8 |
Inform
communities about the issue. Sending money to help out. Opinions
of community. Help out camps, raise money for those not yet
citizens. Talk to the refugees about what they need. Have
it be about the love. |
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| Table
#9 |
Public
service announcements – educate. Learn more about different
cultures. Welcome people. Translation – learning a second
or third language. Get more involved in the community –
diversity club at school or start your own club. |
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#10 |
Education.
Support concerned candidates in politics. Support and join
organizations like Amnesty International. |
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#12 |
Volunteer
time and money to organizations, vote for politicians/ things
that support refugees, be accepting and kind to refugees in
your area, use the situation to learn more about refugees
and how their lives were / are. |
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#13 |
Take
in refugees yourself. Build a system for help in the community.
Become informed about these problems. |
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| Table
#14 |
Develop
programs of awareness. Raise money and learn about the problem.
Fund raiser, advertise, make people aware of the issues. Volunteer
and show an example to the world. |
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#18 |
Get
more funding – how? Introduce refugees to community
more – organize together, telling people’s stories
and get more community understanding and lessen distrust.
Help support school programs. |
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What
do you wish you knew more about? |
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#1 |
Details
– What do people go through, how did refugees get here? |
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#2 |
Global
events: Conflicts, wars, cultures and becoming more sensitive
toward them, international news , religions, holidays, all
the people and what they go through, acting around others. |
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#3 |
Who
makes decisions about refugees? Or how they spend money. News
would give more graphical information. How can you get involved. |
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#7 |
The
magnitude of the problem to the government. Specific funding
of refugees, what government is spending money on. Refugee
opinions, how they think it should be changed “Inside
views”. Media coverage, the part America plays with
helping refugees, not helping. |
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| Table
#8 |
Get
to the heart of the problem; can we help within the country?
Where are they living? What exactly do we do to help the refugees
here in our area? |
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#12 |
People
should know more about the general information, what exactly
is being done to help refugees, why can’t more refugees
be accepted into the USA? |
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#13 |
Why
no one stops the problem? What is the source of the refugees?
Who would want ½ their country’s population all
across the world? Reasons why they are refugees? Why we don’t
hear more about the refugees and countries problems? Wish
there was more media coverage of world events. Vote or you’re
a loser. |
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#14 |
How
difficult it is to get out of their country and the process.
About their past, also why their government is so corrupt.
Why they got kicked out. Programs that can help refugees.
I’d want to talk to them about their lives and what
America means to them. |
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| Table
#18 |
What
everyone’s fleeing from – What’s going on
in these countries? What the refugee community contributes to
community. Cultural ways that interfere with refugees integration
with US culture. |
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