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"Like many, when I lost my job at the beginning of the pandemic, I wasn’t sure how my family was going to survive. As someone new to the United States, I started questioning my decision to move my family here and whether we would have been better off staying in Syria. My worries were alleviated when a generous case worker at ACCESS took on our case and treated us like we were family. She led me to help that I didn’t know was available. Thanks to our ACCESS case worker, we received unemployment benefits, food and basic needs, and even got furniture for our home and clothes and school supplies for our kids. It was only because of ACCESS that we were able to keep our house and furnish it, so it finally felt like home. Our kids felt secure enough about our future to focus on school, and I was able to commute to a job that our case worker helped me get.”
– Anwar Fahed, Recipient of ACCESS Emergency Basic Needs Fund in 2020
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