Provide Urgent COVID-19 Support for Refugees
COVID-19 has adversely impacted hospitality-related businesses that provide many of the jobs for people who came to Idaho through the refugee resettlement program. As a result, many who came as refugees are unable to meet their monthly expenses because they’ve lost jobs or had their hours significantly reduced.
Help ensure that families who are out of work or have had drastic reductions in their monthly paychecks get food security assistance. This allows families to shift their limited savings toward rent and utility bills and ensures that families have access to nutritional food, essential to their sustained health.
“Receiving food gift cards from a store that has halal foods has given our family the choice of foods that are halal and that we like to eat.”
-Syrian woman from a previous food security project
A donation of $100 equals the cost of two weeks of groceries for a family of four.
A donation of $200 per month equals the cost of groceries for a family of four every month.
A donation of $1200 equals the cost of 6 months’ worth of groceries for a family of four.
