How We Can Make An Impact

4 Actionable Steps We Can Take

1) Donate money to organizations that are delivering aid and helping refugees find new homes. Here are a list of humanitarian organizations:
  • International Rescue Committee (You can donate by clicking the donate button at the top right:) 
  • Action Against Hunger : https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/ 
  • UNICEF : https://www.unicef.org/
  • Refugees International : https://www.refugeesinternational.org/ 
2) Volunteering is a great way to help out those in your community. Regardless of how large or small the initiative, it makes a meaningful impact to those who need it. For example, you can:
  1. Drive Community Members: Offer transportation services, such as driving a mom to Halal grocery stores weekly or taking families to their places of worship.
  2. Assist with Youth Sports Participation: Help families complete the necessary forms and processes for their teenagers to join youth sports teams.
  3. Facilitate Mass Transit Use: Guide families in understanding and utilizing the local mass transit system.
  4. Move Donated Furniture: Transport donated furniture, like couches and chairs, to families in need.
  5. Map Local English Classes: Research and compile a list of nearby English classes, including costs, and share this information with families.
  6. Identify Free Local Activities: Find and suggest free activities within walking distance or accessible via mass transit for families to enjoy together.
  7. Set Up Bank Accounts: Assist adult family members in establishing bank accounts.
  8. Job Search Assistance: Help teenagers and adults find employment, and set up automated deposit systems to avoid payday loan services.
3) Talk to legislators to get meaningful laws passed that address the border issue. Below are a few pieces of legislations to inspire your future activism:

America’s CHILDREN Act ; Proposed by Senator Alex Padilla and U.S. Congresswoman Deborah Ross

  • The legislation would protect the 250,000+ Documented Dreamers—children of long-term visa holders—living in the United States.

Ensuring United Families at the Border Act; Sponsored: Rep. Biggs, Andy 

  • This bill addresses the treatment of children who are non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law), including by statutorily establishing that there is no presumption that such a child (other than an unaccompanied child) should not be detained for immigration purposes.

4) Remember to VOTE!!! (Locally & Nationally)