‘Tis the season, and at AWE we are busy preparing for our annual holiday event!
For many AWE clients, this will be their first holiday season in the United States. Many are far from family and friends, and they don’t have the resources and support to celebrate. Each year, AWE hosts a holiday party and gift distribution event, in the hopes of creating a sense of community and celebration for our clients.
With the help of volunteers, we turn AWE’s community room into a holiday ‘shopping center’, with gifts lined up along the walls. The event is a potluck, and volunteers, clients, staff, and partners are invited to share a meal, make holiday crafts, play games, and celebrate the holidays together.
Ocan, an AWE client, had only been in the US for a few weeks when he attended our 2022 holiday event. “We were very new [to the country] at that time, and we did not know what to expect at the holidays” he recalls. “The event was a very nice surprise for us.”
This year we hope to provide gifts for every asylum seeker and trafficking survivor enrolled in our services. However, we are serving more clients than ever before, as the need for our services continually grows. This means that we hope to provide gifts to more clients than in previous years.
We rely on generous donations from supporters, partners, and community organizations to provide these gifts. This holiday season, help bring holiday joy to AWE clients by donating gifts or volunteering at our holiday gift event and potluck. Please contact Rachel Braver at rachel@asyleewomen.org for more information about how to donate gifts, or Jane Keller at jane@asyleewomen.org to volunteer with us. You can also shop from our Amazon Holiday Wishlist.
Wishing you a very happy holidays from all of us at AWE!
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