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Catholic Charities assists refugees and immigrants that are legally in the United States. Our Refugee Resettlement program supports refugees who flee their country of origin, often running from violence, war and persecution, to save their lives. They are granted refugee status by the United Nations due to a well-founded case of persecution and cleared for entrance to America by our Department of Homeland Security.

Our Immigration Legal Services team helps reunite those in the U.S. legally with minor children and spouses who remain in their country of origin. Many of those we assist are refugees — those granted refugee status by the United Nations and invited here by the U.S. Federal Government — to reunite with their spouses and minor children. We also help U.S. citizens and those with legal residency secure residency for their spouses and/or children.

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Grant Helps Refugees with Cleaning and Hygiene Products

Catholic Charities refugee resettlement program received a grant from Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in Scottsdale for $3,500. The funds are being used to purchase hygiene and cleaning products that will be distributed to the programs most financially vulnerable families.

Refugee Hygiene Grant

This extended family of 16 moved to Phoenix in 2013 from the Central African Republic. Their native language is a dialect that has been difficult to find interpretation for, but some of the family members speak French as Central African Republic was a French colony.

Refugee Hygiene Grant

Catholic Charities has been able to provide employment and housing services, as well as enroll the youngest children in our West Side Head Start program.

Refugee Hygiene Grant

These girls are a part of a family of six who began moving to the United States (U.S.) from Burma in 2013. The girls moved here recently with their mother.

Other family members are working and providing for the family. The family is living together, adjusting well and enjoying their supply of donations.

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