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Purchase one shared computer per year with internet access and anti-virus for $250.  That’s just $28 per month.

Enable residents to communicate with family members across the world, allowing for greater emotional health and potential family reunification.  Help refugees receive critical job-related skills to enable them to become self-supporting more quickly.

• Staff set-up of individual log-in
• Orientation to using a computer and the basic programs- including keyboarding, MSN and Skype
• Instruction regarding Spam
• IT support and maintenance.

** (Adaptations are made according to each refugee’s experience when they arrive)

If you are interested in supporting a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.  We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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Let’s welcome a newly arrived refugee with a basket full of basic supplies to get life started in Canada.  In addition, we provide one on one staff time to orient each new resident at Welcome Home.  Investment:  $250 or just $28/month!

• Bus tickets
• Maps of the region
• Laundry supplies
• Bedding and towels
• Toiletries
• Grocery Cards
• Phone cards

Orientation includes:

• Participating in shared life at Welcome Home
• Using the electric appliances to cook, do laundry, etc
• How to use the transit system
• How to make long distance calls to family and friends
• Where to shop
• How to dress for our weather
• Garbage and recycling

If you are interested in supporting a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.  We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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Each resident at Welcome Home receives their own set of pots and a frying pan, to enable them to cook their own cultural foods.  All this for just $200, or only $17/month!

Instruction includes

• how to use an electric stove
• food storage
• where to purchase food
• connections to Food Banks
• how to care for Teflon
• baking
• microwaving
• putting out a cooking fire

** (Adaptations are made according to each refugee’s experience when they arrive)

If you are interested in supporting a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.  We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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A series of events are planned throughout the year to foster community amongst the staff and refugees who live at Welcome Home.  Former residents are also invited to many of our outings in order to encourage them in their settlement journey. In the past year, we’ve taken in the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights, swam in Lake Huron,  celebrated Victoria Day with a soccer game in Victoria Park and hosted a monthly House Dinner.

 

Your gift of $200 or $17 per month will provide a year’s worth of community-building for a refugee:

• Groceries and meals out
• Gas and parking or entrance fees
• Staff investment to plan and lead these outings

If you are interested in supporting a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.  We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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$83 per month or $1000 per year provides a private,  livable home for a refugee. Staff invests in making sure this room is clean and ready when a resident is ready to move in.  This is a shared venture between our landlord- Ray of Hope, our staff and volunteers who so generously share their time.

• Painting and Flooring
• Electricity and Light Bulbs
• Heat and  Water and  Paper Products
• Furniture (managing donations so they have the basics)
• Refrigerator
• Decorating our common spaces
• Cleaning and Supplies
• Keys
• Personal Kitchen Cupboard
• Personal Mailbox
• Maintenance

If you are interested in supporting a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.  We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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Canada is known as a “Christian” country.  We lead a weekly Bible study and prayer time in English, an opportunity to explore what “Christian” actually means for our curious residents from all faith and cultural backgrounds.  Music and the worship time is a bonus!

Your support helps us provide:

• Bibles in English and in their own heart language
• Study materials
• Staff to prepare and lead the study and worship time
• Staff to follow up throughout the week and live out the truths that have been shared

If you are interested in supporting a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.  We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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Hosts are volunteers from local churches who want to develop a life-changing relationship with a newly arrived refugee.  Staff invest time to provide the training and ongoing support/supervision. You are invited to invest $100 per refugee to support this project for a year.  That’s less than $10 per month!

Hosts are asked to commit to a minimum of 6 months, one hour a week of interaction. The host and their match choose what they want to do together, from going to the library or park, to watching the Rangers play, or heading home to share an evening with their family.

Here’s what we offer the residents:

• Make a Canadian friend
• Find out about Kitchener-Waterloo
• Practice your English
• Learn about Canadian customs and culture
• And more!

If you are interested in supporting a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.

We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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Our annual budget for 2009 is $150,000.  We are able to house 15 refugees at one time.

So, simply put, it costs $10,000 per year to house a refugee at Welcome Home.

Think about your own costs as a family- that’s a pretty good deal!  Within that $10,000, over $5000 is spent on personal staff time with a refugee.  We’re very excited about this number.  Anyone can simply hand over sheets and toilet paper and even Bibles.  What we offer is a community with compassionate, skilled leadership to provide daily support in the settlement process and hope for the future.

A good sampling of the rest of our expenditures can be seen in the individual projects named within the Grocery List.

If you are up to the challenge of making a life-changing investment in a refugee and the Welcome Home Program in this way, please contact us.  We’d love to share this opportunity with you!

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