current  prsg  refugees:

297

current  prsg  volunteers:

103

Want to have a donation drive?

Do you belong to a community group, church, scouting group, medical practice, etc that wants to do a cleaning supplies and toiletries drive for our monthly supply bags? PRSG is now supporting more than 80 refugee families. That’s a lot of laundry soap and shampoo! Let us know if you can help. Fred Meyer or any gift cards are also great.
Please contact us at: Donations@pdxrsg.org.  Every little bit helps ... Thank you very much!

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ONE WORLD ... ONE HUMANITY

Welcoming Refugees To
Portland, Oregon
The United States has a long tradition of offering refuge to those fleeing persecution and war. Oregon has always taken in refugees & immigrants from all over the world, and has been partaking in their aid and is determined to continue its efforts.
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The Portland Refugee Support Group (PRSG) is dedicated to helping refugee & immigrant families integrate into our society with ease and comfort, welcoming them with open arms and making them feel like family.

OUR mission

Our mission at PRSG is to empower refugees through education, life skills training, and social support. We focus on helping refugee families acclimate to life in America and become familiar with their community.

OUR core values

OUR vision

A community where refugees feel they belong – a place where they are safe, prosperous, and able to pursue happiness.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Get Involved

We are proud to have a GREAT group of volunteers to help the refugee & immigrant families with their day-to-day needs.  However, there is always a need for more volunteers, as they aren't always available.  We encourage you to reach out to us, join our team, and change a family's life.
Here's how you can get involved:
  • Be a Volunteer: Volunteer once a week by visiting a refugee or immigrant family, help them learn how to use public transportation, how to enroll their children into school, how to get to their English lessons, how to get to their doctor’s appointments, how to go grocery shopping, how to use the food card, how to get to the Social Security office, how to open a bank account, etc.​​
  • Donate: We’re always looking for toiletries and cleaning supplies for the monthly supply bags we distribute to refugee & immigrant families.
  • Tutor: You can tutor the refugee or immigrant parents and children in English once a week to help them speed up their learning journey.
  • Be a Friend: Invite them to community gatherings with other refugees from their home country, take them to the park, play a sport with them, etc.

Help Us Help The Refugee Families

Please sign up as soon as possible so we can connect you to a needy refugee family.  We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and hope to be working with you soon for the betterment of our world.
How Many Refugees Are There?

There are more than 68 million people in the world today that have been forcibly displaced.
About 25 million people worldwide have fled to other countries as refugees, and more than half of them are children. Most only make it as far as a neighboring country where they’re herded into camps and cities and forced to struggle to survive on their hosts’ limited, and often dwindling, resources.
Less than 1% of the world's refugees are given the opportunity to restart their lives in a new country, and a small number of them get to live in wealthy countries like the US, Canada and the UK.
About 3 million refugees have been resettled in the US since 1980. An average of about 80,000 refugees arrive in the US each year. But since 2016, the US has only resettled 33,000 refugees.
Since 1980, more than 64,000 refugees have resettled in Oregon. An average of about 1,000 refugees have arrived in Oregon each year since 2002.
The refugee admissions/vetting process is very strict and thorough, and can take up to 18 to 24 months. When the refugees finally reach the host country they need all the help they can get.
One of PRSG's Amazing Teenage Refugees Tells His Story
Amidst the thick darkness of a city just before sunrise on the day he arrived in Portland, Abdulelah Aldabea imagined his brain was an iPhone restoring to factory settings: wiped … Read more

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