Uncategorized Archives - New York for Syrian Refugees https://www.ny4syrians.org/category/uncategorized/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:58:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 224667292 Urgent Help Needed! https://www.ny4syrians.org/2022/09/14/urgent-help-needed/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:19:45 +0000 https://www.ny4syrians.org/?p=3659 Friends!  We are seeking to raise $15,000 via a GoFundMe site to help keep a close-knit refugee family together with their loved ones.   Recently, Meryem, the grown daughter of a settled refugee family, and her two young children arrived in America. They are seeking asylum. Until asylum is granted, this young family is at risk of […]

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Friends!  We are seeking to raise $15,000 via a GoFundMe site to help keep a close-knit refugee family together with their loved ones.
 
Recently, Meryem, the grown daughter of a settled refugee family, and her two young children arrived in America. They are seeking asylum. Until asylum is granted, this young family is at risk of deportation. While safely residing with her children, parents, and siblings, Meryem continues to enlist the services of an attorney to represent them. Her attorney’s fees are beyond the family’s ability to pay. This fundraiser to cover those fees.
 
Many thanks to our generous donors who have already helped this effort.
John and Judith Ball
Bruce and Janice Coles
Kevin Coyle
Laurie and M. Dollard
Margery Corbin and Erik Eddy
Jordan Falcon
Joe and Jeanette Frazier
Karen Gregory
Ilyse Levine and David Weinstein
Anthony Malone
Katherine and Bruce Pieper
Michael Pipa
Charles and Maura Robbins
John and Kathy State
 
 
Meryem and her family

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]]> 3659 A Note from the Founder https://www.ny4syrians.org/2020/11/27/a-note-from-the-founder/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:49:09 +0000 http://box5234.temp.domains/~syriand2/ny4syrians/?p=871 On this beautiful day in November, I wish our community members a nice and peaceful Thanksgiving. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with you to help our refugee families who arrived to the Capital region in 2016. I am grateful for our dedicated board members and for our outstanding and committed volunteers. In […]

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On this beautiful day in November, I wish our community members a nice and peaceful Thanksgiving. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with you to help our refugee families who arrived to the Capital region in 2016. I am grateful for our dedicated board members and for our outstanding and committed volunteers. In many areas around the world, our brothers and sisters are struggling to find food, water, shelter or safety. Although many are in need of a helping hand, I am grateful that there are supportive communities for those who managed to get to our shores. We have a dedicated and generous community that has stood by our refugees’ side and continues to help them adapt and thrive.  I pray we can continue to work together to lend a hand to whomever needs it, whether in the US or in the rest of the world. 

May God bless our community and keep us united.

Love and care,

Ilham AlMahamid, Ph. D.
Founder and Director
New York for Syrian Refugees


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]]> 871 About our logo https://www.ny4syrians.org/2019/06/21/about-our-logo/ Sat, 22 Jun 2019 01:34:47 +0000 http://box5234.temp.domains/~syriand2/ny4syrians/?p=798 Our logo was created by our design team, led by our friend Amy Lucey, a talented graduate of Parsons School of Design. The Statue of Liberty symbolizes our welcoming values as Americans, and the jasmine flowers on the crown represent the most common flower in Syria and symbolize love, beauty, and peace. “Give me your […]

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Our logo was created by our design team, led by our friend Amy Lucey, a talented graduate of Parsons School of Design. The Statue of Liberty symbolizes our welcoming values as Americans, and the jasmine flowers on the crown represent the most common flower in Syria and symbolize love, beauty, and peace.

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

 

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