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Mohamad, a refugee from Burma (now Myanmar), came to the United States alone in 2014. Since then he has worked several labor intensive jobs, gone to school and spent many hours contacting people and filling out forms trying to reunite with his family. He successfully brought his wife and two of his children to the

Be a Secret Santa for Refugee Youth Our Secret Santas give to refugee and newly arrived families to celebrate the season and make them feel welcome. We have 180 children in afterschool programs alone, so we need your help!   Shop our Secret Santa Amazon Wishlist  and have items sent directly to us. Or, take some

Black Friday is over. Cyber Monday is done. What’s left? Cleanse your palate from the shopping craze by giving back! Today is #GAgives on #GivingTuesday, and we are thrilled to have two extraordinary donors providing $19,000 in match! That means we can turn $19,000 raised online into $38,000 to support refugees in Georgia! Thanks to

First-time voter, Harry Osayimwen, moved to Georgia from his native Nigeria in September 2011 to be reunited with his then 16-year-old son and, as Harry says, “to be the dad my son wanted me to be.” An engineer by trade, Harry has been working as an office administrator in Norcross where he commutes from Stone

“For the fun of it!” “Because we can!” Over the past few weeks, the middle school kids in our Bright Futures afterschool program got to experience the fun of voting for themselves. They also had a few words of advice for adults who are eligible voters. In school, they voted for homecoming king and queen,

By Fatima Koko, New AP Data and Service Specialist After a decade of AmeriCorps service, New AP just kicked off our eleventh year with a new team! While I mostly work on the backend of managing AmeriCorps logistics, this time around my responsibility in recruitment and onboarding members has been more on the active side

Abdul Karim is on a pathway to his American dream with the support of New American Pathways’ Forward program. Having supported the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Abdul Karim’s life was in danger. He fled his home country and, in 2014, received a Special Immigrant Visa to come alone to the United States. New American Pathways

A global tapestry of culture found its home in Clarkston on June 23rd. In the span of two hours at this year’s World Refugee Day celebration, hundreds of supporters could see performances from Laotian and Peruvian dance groups, hear traditional Asian drumming, buy clothes and handicrafts from around the world, eat Syrian sweets and hear