The Welcome to America Project is a nonprofit organization that creates community connections and builds bridges of neighborly understanding by providing furniture, basic necessities, education, and additional resources to newly arriving refugees.
We offer a simple welcoming gesture, but it is one that lasts a lifetime.
We’ll visit a family from Iraq. The mother (54), her 2 daughters (ages 20 and 24) and her granddaughter (5) have endured a great deal of hardship and heartache to arrive here. The family decided to leave Iraq in 2011 after two attempts to kidnap their only son. The father, the son and one daughter…
