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Current issue, March 2019, #28
Next Steering meeting: Tuesday, February 26 at 7:00PM.
Location: St. Nicholas Church, 17 Meriam St. Lexington.  Use side entrane.
Table of contents

  • LexRAP had a pot luck get together for its families and the volunteers who work with them as tutors and mentors. Over 50 people came to The Church of Our Redeemer on Mar 2. We had a blessing before we ate from a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian along with words of gratitude from a former asylee who now has refugee status and is newly engaged to be married. 
  • Still looking for a few people who could do some driving for a family in the Concord area. contact Donna
  • If someone is a tax accountant and count answer a few questions with not legal obligations. Contact Don
  • Community Dinner Events: Hand-in-Hand is new pop-up café is coming to town! LexRAP, in coordination with First Parish Lexington, is starting a monthly café called Hand in Hand Café where local refugee women will be paid to cook dinners for paying guests.  Tickets here!
  • Patriot's Day Pancake Breakfast: The Church of Our Redeemer (6 Meriam St), once again will donate proceeds from its annual Patriot's Day Pancake Breakfast to LexRAP.
  • Please consider Donating to Family Reunification Fund. 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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