Welcome to a Special Edition of This Week at LIRS! 


This week, we're focusing on the unaccompanied children at the border and what we can do to support them. 

Our Call to Care


In recent months, thousands of unaccompanied migrant children have arrived at our southern border seeking protection from the violence, climate disaster, and extreme poverty that have ravaged Central America and beyond. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service operates across the country to provide care to unaccompanied children and is urgently working with our service partners, community groups, and volunteers to address the critical needs of recently arrived children and working to reunite them with a family member here in the United States.
 
The circumstances at the border have been weighing heavy on all of us, and we know that many of you are eager to learn more about the situation and how you can help. Below, please find our latest resources, interviews, and events surrounding unaccompanied children and learn more about how you can join us in our work of welcome

WEBINAR

Join us for Our Call to Care: Supporting Unaccompanied Children at the Southern Border on Wednesday, March 31 at 4 p.m. EST to learn more about the influx of unaccompanied children at our border, actions LIRS is taking to support them, and ways you can join us in the work of protecting and welcoming children and families.
 
Register Now

TOOLKIT

We know you are eager to learn more about how you can answer the call to serve and join LIRS’s long legacy of providing protection and welcome to unaccompanied migrant children at the border and beyond. The situation may seem overwhelming, but our Hope for the Southern Border toolkit outlines tangible ways for you, your friends and family, and your community to lend a hand at this critical time.
Download the Toolkit

FAQ

Who are the children? What happens when they arrive in the U.S.? Why are they coming now? What is LIRS doing to help? 

Get answers to all of your biggest questions about the situation at the southern border with our helpful, up-to-date blog of frequently asked questions
Read the FAQ

DONATE

Your donation is an act of service and helps LIRS to protect and welcome unaccompanied children as we provide access to critical services including educational opportunities, medical and mental healthcare services, and access to legal service providers. Your support directly serves LIRS and our partners as we work quickly to unite children with their families and ensure that they have what they need to begin their lives in the U.S.
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LIRS IN THE NEWS

"One hundred and twenty-five thousand refugees being resettled this [next] year is unrealistic," says [LIRS CEO[ Krish O'Mara Vignarajah. "Our refugee resettlement has been on life support for the past few years." 

Read more at NPR.

"'At the end of 2016, there were approximately 325 local resettlement offices operating across the country,' says Krish O’Mara Vignarajah. By the end of 2019, 'more than 100 of them had to either shut the doors or suspend resettlement services' since there just weren’t any refugees to serve." 

Read more at Bloomberg.
"It costs the federal government $319 per day to detain an individual in a family detention facility, while organizations such as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service spend just $14.05 per day to provide community-based support and a wide array of services to families."

Read more at Forbes.
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