resilience and hope: #sharethejourney with congolese refugees
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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
RESILIENCE AND HOPE:#ShareTheJourney with
Congolese Refugees
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H o u s e k e e p i n g
• Webinar being recorded• Mute • Live tweeting – via @EMMRefugees, @TheEPPN
• #ShareTheJourney• #Episcopal• #DRC, #Congo, #Congolese• #refugee, #refugees
• Use question function to submit questions; introduce yourself. Submit throughout webinar; we will answer at the end. If needed, follow-up post-webinar.
• Technical issues? Use chat function to contact Wendy Johnson, or email Wendy at [email protected]
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I n t r o d u c t i o n s
Allison DuvallManager for Church
Relations & [email protected]
Kurt BonzProgram Manager, Post-
Katie ConwayImmigration & Refugee
Policy AnalystOffice of Government [email protected]
Wendy JohnsonManager for Communications
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S e t t i n g t h e S t a g e
• Context • History of conflict/violence/push factors• Geography of displacement• Journey to America
• Integration and Community• #ShareTheJourney with Your Neighbors • Become an Advocate • Be Part of Our Ministry - #ShareTheJourney Pilgrimage • Q&A • Resources for Further Learning• Stay in Touch
Pray for an end to the conflict [in the Democratic Republic of Congo], an end to violence and the atrocities, that the needs of the suffering may be supplied, and that peace may prevail.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts SchoriPresiding Bishop and PrimateThe Episcopal Church
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Episcopal Migration Ministries’ 30 affiliate agencies in 26 dioceses collectively serve about 5,000 refugees every year.
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Photo: Exodus Refugee, Episcopal Migration Ministries
How do we welcome our new neighbors?
• Welcome begins before refugees arrive• Arranging decent safe and sanitary housing• Furniture (need not be new, but in good
condition), cleaning supplies, toiletries• Seasonal clothing and clothing for work• Stocking the kitchen, pantry, and refrigerator
• Welcome at arrival• Greeting refugees at the airport• Ready to eat and culturally appropriate meal
upon arrival
• Welcome and orientation to their new community• Case management: Assistance applying for social security card, enrollment in English
language programs, employment services• Ensure every refugee has health assessment within 30 days of arrival• Transportation assistance• Assistance with filing with family overseas
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Discerning How You Can Welcome1. Assess Your Gifts, Resources, and Skills2. Match Gifts, Resources, and Skills with Opportunities
1. Get to know your local resettlement office. How can your gifts, resources, and skills be matched to support the vision and mission of the local resettlement office?
2. Learn about and meet your new neighbors. How can your gifts, resources, and skills welcome your new neighbors?
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Discerning How You Can Welcome3. Build Your Team4. Make a Plan 5. Communicate with Local Partners6. Put Plan into Action7. Evaluate
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# S h a r e T h e J o u r n e y w i t h Y o u r N e i g h b o r s
#ShareTheJourney as The Episcopal Church celebrates 75 years of resettling refugees in the United States.
#ShareTheJourney is a multi-media effort to educate, form, and equip Episcopalians to engage in loving service with resettled refugees and to become prophetic witnesses and advocates on behalf of refugees, asylees, migrants, and displaced persons throughout the world.
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B e c o m e a n A d v o c a t e
• Advocate: Our voices are needed!
• Robust funding is needed for the immediate needs of those who flee and for the services resettled refugees receive when they arrive in the U.S
• Contact your Members of Congress and let them know that you support robust funding for the protection and reception of refugees
• Specifically, the following accounts• Department of State
• Migration and Refugee Assistance• Emergency Migration and Refugee Assistance
(ERMA)• International Disaster Assistance Account
• Health and Human Services• Refugee Entrant Assistance Account
• Congress will be working on the FY16 budget throughout the spring and summer
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#ShareTheJourney:
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Follow us on Twitter• @EMMRefugees• @TheEPPN
Connect with one of our 30 local affiliate organizations.
www.EpiscopalMigrationMinistries.orgwww.advocacy.episcopalchurch.org
Follow the virtual pilgrimage:www.episcopalchurch.org/sharethejourney
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# S h a r e T h e J o u r n e y P i l g r i m a g e
#ShareTheJourney Pilgrimage• 8 Episcopalians selected through
churchwide application process• EMM staff• Episcopal News Service• The Rev. Ranjit Mathews, Officer for
Global Relations and Networking
Purpose: to follow the process of in-country preparation for refugee resettlement to the United States, to witness the plight of Congolese and Central African refugees
Visiting Gihembe Camp, north of Kigali, Rwanda
Also, examining issues of gender-related violence, persecution of LGBTI refugees, unaccompanied children
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Q u e s t i o n s
Questions?
What has inspired you?
What has challenged you?
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L e a r n m o r e
• Books• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of
Africa by Jason Stearns• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by
Adam Hochschild• Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck• Africa’s World War by Gerard Prunier
• Web resources• UNHCR Portal, Democratic Republic of Congo• Center for Applied Linguistics
• Video: Congolese refugees in the United States• Backgrounder: Congolese Refugees
• Refugee Council USA (RCUSA) DRC webpage • The Atlantic
• Article: The Origins of the War in the DRC • Refugees International
• Field Report: Congolese Women: What Happened to the Promise to Protect? • Film: Who am I going to be? – About young adult Congolese resettled to New
Hampshire• Call to Prayer: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Advent 2012
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• EMM Website: www.episcopalchurch.org/emm • Facebook: www.facebook.com/emmrefugees • Twitter: www.twitter.com/EMMRefugees• Tumblr: www.emmrefugees.tumblr.com
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Katie ConwayImmigration and Refugee Policy [email protected], (202) 599-8601
Allison DuvallManager for Church Relations and [email protected], (212) 716-6027
Wendy JohnsonManager for [email protected], (212) 716-6143
Kurt BonzProgram [email protected], (212) 716-6254