WAY TO GO BROOKSIDE!
Because of your generosity, we're able to provide four refugee families with a warm welcome to our city. Together, you supplied furniture, household good and toys for families who have been displaced. Want to help set up their home? You can help move furniture, stock cupboards and grocery shop.
Help us welcome refugees to our city.
Imagine being displaced from your home country with no time to pack, plan or learn a new language and culture. Currently, there are 54,000 Afghanistan refugees being processed in military bases across the United States. Omaha is expecting to receive approximately 500 of them, along with other refugees that are consistently being resettled here from other countries. Most of them only have the clothes they're wearing. At Brookside, we know that All People Matter To God. It's one of our core values.
So, Brookside is working in conjunction with Lutheran Family Services to provide these families a welcoming home. We'll be setting up a BRAND NEW household for 4 refugee families (we can't take used items - sorry!). Help us supply them with everything they need - from furniture to laundry soap, from sheets and towels to toys for the kids.
If you want to find out more and get more perspective on what these families face, check out this video with Sher Jan Ahmadzai, the Director of the Center of Afghanistan Studies at University of Nebraska, Omaha.
