World relief chicagoland dupage office
Thank you for helping to provide essentials for life to neighbors in need!
Thank you to all who donated winter coats for our 2024 Season of Sharing coat drive for refugee ministry! More than 160 coats have been delivered to World Relief Chicagoland to provide warmth to neighbors in need this winter.
Additionally, from Nov. 16 - Dec. 1, Our Saviour's will be collecting $25 gift cards to Target or Walmart for Refugee Ministry. Watch for our annual Giving Trees in November!
Our Saviour’s has a long history of working with World Relief Chicagoland to provide support for individuals who have gone through the long process to be admitted into the United States as refugees. Working with World Relief, Our Saviour's Refugee Ministry helps set up and furnish apartments for recently resettled refugee families. Refugee Ministry works throughout the year to provide household essentials such as towels, bed sheets, tableware and kitchen tools to those served by World Relief.
Do you have a $250 Thrivent card you're looking to use? Donate it to Refugee Ministry to help build Welcome Kits for World Relief Chicagoland! These kits supply household essentials to refugees who have
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement.
In the Chicago area, we come alongside refugees and other immigrants in vulnerable situations as they rebuild their lives in the United States. Our key program areas work together to help low-income immigrant and refugee families build meaningful relationships, access needed resources, and overcome cultural, economic, language, legal, and social barriers so that every family can thrive.
Organization Address
191 S. Gary Ave. Suite 130
Carol Stream, IL 60188
Name and Position of Contact Person
Basma Outhman, Volunteer Onboarding Coordinator
Phone Number
(773) 389-6013
Email Address
volunteerchicagoland@wr.org
Website Address
worldrelief.org/chicagoland/volunteer/
Days/Hours Available for Service Learners
Flexible
Description of Service Learner Role
Service Learners can serve in a variety of ways with World Relief the Chicago area. From tutoring immigrant and refugee students, investing
The loss of federal funding for a refugee resettlement program in January has left nearly 400 refugees in the Chicago area – including more than 90 in the Aurora area — in limbo, says the Chicago area office of global Christian humanitarian organization World Relief.
And, a month after its funding was initially suspended, World Relief Chicagoland – which provides services to refugees and immigrants in Chicago and the suburbs – said its contract with the federal government to provide refugee resettlement was terminated, despite the Trump administration’s suspension of funding for the program being put on hold by a federal determine the day before.
While the management has continued its other services in the meantime, World Relief said it was first notified on Jan. 24 by the State Department that its federal funding for resettling new refugees had been temporarily suspended. Agencies including World Relief received directives to stop work and not incur new costs, according to the Associated Press.
Typically, the U.S. government processes refugee applications and decides who comes in, explained World Relief Chicagoland’s Executive Director Susan Sperry, and then organizations like
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, acr