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Arielle has a background in international law, working primarily with refugees and asylum seekers. She founded New Women New Yorkers 2 years ago to help young women like herself, immigrants and refugees, adjust and become more fully integrated into their new country. New Women New Yorkers is unique in the NYC non-profit world as no other local organization is focused specifically on providing programs responding to the needs of immigrant and refugee women from all communities and backgrounds.
Cross-Community Collaboration. New Women New Yorkers takes a collaborative approach to serving the young women immigrants of New York. It partners with other organizations to bring programming to life. Regardless of their country of origin, young women immigrants share similar challenges as immigrants and as women. The LEAD program is focused on serving young women aged , providing cross-community services to foster friendship and a sense of solidarity and belonging. As a c 3 nonprofit organization, New Women New Yorkers is always in need of support from the community.
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While one would think the first goal of our mission is medical, our primary aim is to encounter every person we meet and to share and receive the love of Christ. We return transformed by the experience and touched by our encounter with the reality of global poverty and the presence of Christ in each of the people we met, and in one another.
The relationships and experiences have prompted us to make lifestyle changes upon our return. For example, our parish now buys and sells fair trade coffee because we know that fair trade products benefit workers who are paid a fair wage and their families and communities. Our encounter with the face of Christ in the people of El Salvador leaves a lasting impact on our lives. Our Community of Sant' Egidio in Boston runs a children's afterschool program which organizes educational activities aimed at overcoming social barriers and pursuing peace.
Where we live, the challenges of immigrant families can be many, and the environment the children grow up in can often be blind to their needs. To respond to this, we created a School of Peace, a free, after-school program that serves mainly Hispanic children in grades K Our community gives them the academic and personal support they need, and the educational activities we organize with the children encourage in them a more socially conscious and globally aware thinking, and a greater awareness of peace. The schools help families in their efforts to raise their children and propose an educational model open to people of all kinds, promoting solidarity with the less fortunate and enabling children to overcome social barriers and discrimination.
Our youth ministry visits a gym to play sports with young women with disabilities. Some of our youth at St. Louis Parish visit an open gym to play sports with young women with disabilities. Before going to the gym, we discuss how our faith calls us to recognize and respect the dignity of every human person. This experience has led our youth to recognize their peers who are disabled as brothers and sisters in Christ, to develop friendships with them, and to speak in ways that respect the dignity of others. We work together with the leaders of Hispanic movements and communities active in our parishes to work for immigration reform.
In the Diocese of Orange, we seek to bring Hispanic and non-Hispanic Catholics to work together to improve the lives of immigrants and the U. Our Life, Justice and Peace office fostered education amongst clergy and worked on a multi-diocesan strategy with others in southern California. Many of the leaders from these groups became key to planning, developing and implementing our diocesan actions on immigration. Our collaboration led to participation by over 2, people in a procession from one of our parishes to a legislator's office.
Next, we held a successful gathering at the cathedral to pray and act for immigration reform with over 3, faithful. Last summer, Orange County sent 30 buses, in addition to other carpoolers, up to the regional Mass for Immigrants in Los Angeles. Through Catholic Charities of Orange County, we now have a hub parish in each deanery to help expand the capacity for processing potential applicants. As the Catholics in our diocese have gotten more involved in putting faith in action on this issue, our clergy have also responded by preaching from the pulpit about our faith response to immigration.
We ensure that leadership of our parish mirrors the diversity of our community, and coordinate opportunities for everyone to pray, learn and act together. Katharine Drexel Parish is rich with cultural and ethnic diversity, largely because of a parish merger in Since then, our parish has worked tirelessly to forge one community united in Christ. Our parish and finance councils have a special nomination process so that the leadership of our parish mirrors the diversity in our community.
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We offer training for all of our parishioners to identify and prevent racism and the systematic ways it keeps people poor. Several dozen parishioners have participated in this training. Through our local CCHD-funded group, our parishioners also receive leadership training around organizing.
Besides leadership and training, we coordinate many opportunities for our diverse parishioners to pray, learn and act together. We participate together in our social ministry and faith formation program, which teaches how social justice is grounded in our faith tradition. We also celebrate our unique cultures at social and liturgical events such as our intercultural fiestas where parishioners from over 12 countries share their native dishes and discuss needs and concerns as members of the parish. Our experiences together witness to our unity as brothers and sisters in the family of God.
Find out more: Article about St. We spent years building relationships with other faith communities, neighbors, and civil leaders, which helped us protect community health and the environment. In many communities, the practice of fracking contaminates air, water, and soil, with the most vulnerable people, including children and elderly persons, often affected the worst. Fracking involves injecting large quantities of water and chemicals deep into the ground in order to extract natural gas. Our parish, St. Over the course of two and a half years, we worked to build relationships, educate and organize residents in affected areas, and train volunteer leaders.
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We reached out to public officials and held rallies and actions. Our work ultimately led to a six-month moratorium on fracking in our town. This was followed by a ban on fracking across the state of New York, due in part to the work of MICAH and many others across the state concerned about how fracking can impact the lives and well-being of people. With help from the Amistad Movement, we are working to educate and fight against human trafficking.
When we met a survivor of human trafficking and learned that a quarter of all people trafficked into the United States come through Texas, our parish, the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, decided to take action. This training helps parishes gain the information and skills they need to educate parishioners and to reach out to vulnerable populations that might be at risk. We also provide direct services to victims of human trafficking, helping survivors adjust to normal life and participate in our Catholic community, if that is their wish.
Our hope is for them to be successful, which starts with addressing their basic needs and supporting them emotionally and spiritually.
Together, we are striving to shine light on the issue of human trafficking and to empower its victims. We responded to Pope Francis' call to build a culture of encounter by starting a pen pal relationship between our students and students at a local Muslim school. At St. So, we enthusiastically accepted an invitation from the local private Muslim school to bridge cultures and cultivate real connections between our 5th grade students through letter writing.
In their letters, our fifth graders shared about their faith and cultures and discovered new things about their friends at Al-Amal private school, including the fact that they both loved soccer! After several weeks of exchanging letters, the two 5th grade classes met at a local park where they encountered their pen pals and introduced each other to their friends—and played a quick game of soccer. For our fifth graders, the students at Al-Amal are their friends.
We hope that this encounter and the continued openness and acceptance of our brothers and sisters helps us to respond to the call to love our neighbors.
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Developing a relationship with our Muslim brothers and sisters at a nearby mosque has strengthened our own faith and led to important new collaboration. When the Muslim community in the greater-Milwaukee area announced plans to build a new mosque in Brookfield, which is home to our parish of St.
John Vianney, we were proud to invite our Muslim brothers and sisters into our parish hall for a neighborhood meeting. Since then, our relationship with the community at Masjid Al-Noor mosque has blossomed. Youth from our parish and from Masjid Al-Noor participate in an interfaith youth program that our youth minister helped start.
During Ramadan, the youth leaders planned a Food! Youth from our communities together created a moving video about faith as the common thread which unites the youth with God and with one another. We are drawing attention to the global refugee crisis through educational events, relationship-building opportunities, and advocacy. We launched the advocacy and education effort In Solidarity with Syria in to coordinate and encourage participation throughout The University of Scranton with the broader goal of bringing attention to the global refugee crisis.
Through this program we provided a wide range of activities to involve students, faculty and staff including film screenings, webinars, a refugee simulation, round-table discussions and prayer vigils. Our efforts have taken us outside the University and into the wider Scranton community where we greeted immigrant families at the Scranton airport and shared meals cooked by Syrian and Congolese refugees at a local restaurant. Inspired by our own experiences working with incarcerated children and their families, our religious community began a ministry of reconciliation that uses restorative justice circles.
When priests and sisters in our Precious Blood religious community sat down to speak of their experiences working with incarcerated children and families of incarcerated children, we decided to create a ministry of reconciliation. Our ministry works to bring about peace and reconciliation in neighborhoods that are affected by violence.
One such way we do this is through our restorative justice circles. Our restorative justice circles help restore peace by empowering communities to choose alternatives to retribution that can stop the cycle of violence, such as mentorship, education and job training. The circle process is restorative, increases community ownership for all involved and makes communities safer.
Ten years ago, we began hosting discussions to form relationships and dismantle racism. The discussions bring people together from the parish and the surrounding community to form relationships and learn about and dismantle racism. The discussions occur twice a month, once at our parish, and once at a local community center. Through these discussions, which also include speakers, films, and study materials, we work to raise awareness, facilitate encounter, and provide education on historical and current topics related to racial and economic justice, such as housing discrimination, education and employment opportunity, criminal justice, and other issues.
The discussions complement other efforts in our parish. The experience of encounter through parish social services, and our involvement in a community coalition around homelessness, have helped us to recognize the connections between racial and economic justice. We are now working to help our homeless brothers and sisters engage in advocacy around issues that affect them.
At the level of parish administration, our staff participated in a four-hour training on understanding our biases and white privilege. This helped us to consider how we could adapt our ministries to ensure that people of all cultures and ethnicities feel welcome and have leadership opportunities within the parish. Because our parish has over five thousand parishioners who speak five different languages, we help them to connect with one another on a more personal level. At these house meetings, parishioners connect as members of the body of Christ by voicing personal concerns and identifying the problems that are affecting their lives, such as lack of employment, financial pressures, isolation, and lack attention to the needs of children and the elderly.
Talking about these concerns leads to action as parishioners rise up as leaders and together address the issues that they care about. Parishioners also receive training to gain the skills needed to become effective leaders. Because of this process, parishioners have been able to establish a new day care center in the church, and organize a ministry for seniors. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish. Our seminarians learn to take on "the smell of the sheep" through a ministry to accompany migrant workers in the fields.