What if there was a way you could turn your thrift store donations into a shopping trip for a local family in need? Newcomers Access Center (NAC), a nonprofit that helps refugees and immigrants, has partnered with the ACTS Thrift Store on Foothill Blvd near Garey Ave in Pomona to make it happen.
Are we done yet? Absolutely not! Thanks to the generosity of our donors, at the end of June Newcomer’s Access Center (NAC) made our first delivery to the Pomona Fairplex shelter—274 pairs of shoes and more than a thousand pairs of socks. This is a fantastic start and we are about half way to our goal of raising $15,000 for unaccompanied migrant children. But the need is still great.
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NAC Delivers Shoes to Migrant Kids Volunteers from the Newcomers Access Center delivered 274 pairs of new shoes and more than a thousand pairs of socks June 23 to the Pomona Fairplex where they will soon be distributed to migrant children living there while waiting to be reunited with relatives in the US. The delivery marked the
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Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the UN Join virtually to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations! Click here to see the flyer for more details. The UN established the High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) that states guidelines about how refugees are to be treated around the world. Local UN Association chapter continues to support UN programs
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Trauma and Stress Resources Thank you to everyone who attended our Trauma and Stress Workshop! We hope that you feel equipped with tools to get you through these hard times. If you attended and would like the materials, or if you missed it and would like to learn about this topic, click here to download the presentation.
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