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Current issue, May 2019, #30
Next Steering meeting: Wednesday, April 24 at 7:00PM.
Location: First Parish UU Church, white church on the Lexington Green. Parking in Back
Table of contents

  • Hand-in-Hand Café community dinners were both sold out successes!  We need volunteers on the day of the dinners to set up, clean up, baby sit and more. 
  • Arabic <> English: We would like to introduce Arabic speakers learning English and English speakers learning Arabic to each other!
  • Still looking for a few people who could do some driving for a family in the Concord area. Contact Donna.
  • We are raising money to help the refugees we are involved with be re-united with their families.  CLICK HERE.
  • Do you have an extra room? The rules around applying for asylum in the United States have changed and the wait to get asylum keeps getting longer. This problem exists here in New England – not just at our Southern border.  All of this translates into people who are seeking asylum needing financial help and housing. 
  • Family Reunification Fund: We are raising money to help the refugees we are involved with be re-united with their families. If you would like to donate to this fund, please CLICK HERE. Put the fund name on your check or along with the on-line donation.
  • More Tutors and Social Workers needed: We have found that the needs for the children with disrupted education are less about spoken language than basic education and also that vocabulary and reading are essential needs to help the children catch up – which the children do rapidly
  • LexRAP's Sustained Giving Initiative: Become a Sustaining Givers and give a little or a lot automatically every month. Click here to donate online.
  • Laptop drive still needed!! LexRAP has given away almost 50 Laptops! Give us your used laptop, we refurbish and give it a new home. 
  • Contact information from our agency partners and more ...
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