Tag: world relief spokane

Refugee resettlement agencies World Relief and International Rescue Committee in Spokane face uncertainty due to Trump administration changes, adjusting to funding cuts and other shifts.

Yullia Horbenko, a Ukrainian refugee working with World Relief Spokane, fears her refugee status despite a parole extension. Uncertainty looms for her and other refugees as they discover new U.S. policy changes.

Learn about Waterglider International, a meditation business that supports refugees and new immigrants while providing high-quality meditation cushions.

Learn how World Relief Spokane is dispelling immigration myths and working to support refugees in the area.

Spokane is a sizable city, but we’re insular. We’re often referred to as the largest city between Minneapolis and Seattle, but dominated as we are by majority culture, it can be difficult for us to see our connection to the multi-ethnic world.

World Relief Spokane hosted a prayer event Tuesday night at First Presbyterian Church of Spokane in response to the Trump Administration considering zeroing out the number of refugees resettled by 2020, encouraging people to pray with refugees and for refugees.

This morning, after months of fundraising dollar by dollar, of training mile by mile, I waited with belly and jaw stiff in the World Relief Spokane parking lot for the caravan to leave for Seattle.