Help a Refugee Achieve Economic Success at G.R.O.W.!

Come help us teach refugees how to sew and how to market that new skill on their path to self-sufficiency!

The three pillars of success for refugees in the United States are learning English, employment, and community engagement. With our new G.R.O.W. program, we hope to provide our refugees a path to accomplish all three.

G.R.O.W. stands for Growing Refugee Opportunities and Wealth, and it is a community-driven Bridge Refugee Services initiative centered on fostering sustained self-sufficiency through culturally informed vocational training, wellness education, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Right now, the program is centered around teaching sewing as a marketable skill, ESL, and the entrepreneurial instruction to use this new skill to bring in a steady income.

We are looking for volunteers to help us as floaters/assistants, with transportation, with set-up and tear-down, and with childcare. No sewing experience, foreign language skills, or experience working with refugee populations needed, but welcomed!

This opportunity is on the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 9:30am-12:30pm at First Presbyterian Church.

Volunteer Requirements:

• Complete Bridge Volunteer Paperwork
• Attend Bridge Volunteer Orientation (about 1hr via Zoom)
• Background Check through Sterling Volunteers ($17.50 paid to Sterling Volunteers)

If you have any additional questions, please reach out to Peter Green, our Volunteer & Co-Sponsorship Manager, via email at pgreen@bridgerefugees.org.