We offer a simple welcoming gesture, but it is one that lasts a lifetime.
World Refugee Day

June 22 is a can’t miss event. All are welcome in the broadest sense. Join refugees and the refugee resettlement community at this free, family friendly celebration of Phoenix area refugees. 

June 22, 2019
4:00 - 9:00 pm

Camelback High School
4612 North 28th Street, Phoenix

Interested in volunteering?
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Freedom to Ride

WTAP and our partner, Phantom Cyclist, are in need of donated bikes to ready for refugees.

Bikes mean freedom to the newly freed. Jobs, education and connection to community are all made possible with bikes.

Please look in your garage and check with neighbors for an unused or outgrown bikes and drop them by our warehouse for delivery to refugees.
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SATURDAY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR DONATIONS
Help the WTAP Staff on Saturday mornings by accepting donations in the warehouse! We need a few volunteers to greet visitors, help unload donations and give out donation receipts. Hours are 8:00 - 11:00 am. If you are interested, please email i nfo@wtap.org . Thank you!
MONTHLY INSPIRATION

Get inspired with this month's refugee stories - click here!
WAREHOUSE WISHES

URGENT NEEDS

Dining Room Tables & Chairs
Small Dressers
Floor & Table Lamps
Fans
Twin Sheet Sets
Vacuum Cleaners
Shower Curtains, Liners & Hanger
Sewing Machines
Laundry Baskets

Cleaning Supplies - Laundry Detergent, Dish Soap, Brooms, Mops, Dust Pans, Toilet Brushes

Kits are needed for summer - help us by organizing a kit drive for hygiene kits, cleaning kits or learning kits! *

* see website for details
Please be sure all donations are clean, gently-used or new.

Bridging the Digital Divide - PCs for Refugees

By Jeffrey Kronenfeld,
www.overtureglobal.io
Having crossed seas, deserts, and conflict zones, refugees arriving in the United States and other developed nations face a host of new challenges -- one of which is the digital divide. For those struggling with a new language and culture, the challenge of also learning to use computers, often for the first time, can be as daunting as it is vital to their future success.

Self-described computer geek Riad Sbai — whose parents immigrated from Syria to the U.S. in the late 1980s — founded the nonprofit  PCs for Refugees   (PCs) in 2016 to help recently relocated families obtain computers and the skills to use them. Though it started with Sbai donating a few personal computers, it has grown, now having helped over 500 families get computers and technical training and given out over two dozen laptops to college students. But this only captures a small part of the impact PCs and its partner organizations, such as  The Welcome to America Project   (WTAP) deliver. In addition to necessities and tools, this growing ecosystem of nonprofits, driven by volunteers who share Sbai’s basic altruistic impulse, provide refugees a warm welcome that offsets the anti-immigrant sentiments many of the newly arrived fear almost as much as the violence and hardships they fled.

Click here to read more.
Special Thank You to Our May Donors

Arizona Women's Partnership

Dobson High School
Student Council

National Charity League, Inc. Ahwatukee Foothills Chapter

Riley Novak

Visit our Website to see a complete list of our Supporters - click here!

From January to May, WTAP in-service volunteers have contributed over 2190 hours of service to WTAP! Thank you!

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