As you create your list of resolutions for 2013, we hope you'll consider making support for Iskashitaa a new habit this year. Automatic monthly giving is an easy way to help us sustain our programs.Your donations and volunteer hours helped us serve hundreds of refugees in 2012 through our produce donations, food preservation workshops, and sewing and crafts program.We harvested over 100,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables in 2012, most of which was redistributed to refugee families and to a dozen local non-profit partners with hunger programs.Please help us continue to expand our reach by contacting Natalie Brown at Natalie@iskashitaa.org or 928-503-7496 to discuss monthly giving. Five minutes of your time is all that is required to set this up.Many thanks to our supporters who have already chosen to do so!We are so grateful for your support!
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
What's your New Years Resolution?
Are you working on a list? Iskashitaa Refugee Network can help you!
-Eat WELL by purchasing Iskashitaa local food products
-Make a DIFFERENCE in someone's life by welcoming them to the United States
-Create new RELATIONSHIPS with United Nations' refugees while volunteering in our harvests and food workshops
-Eat LOCAL foods by purchasing Iskashitaa locally gleaned fruits and vegetables and lower your CARBON footprint
-Give a small monetary DONATION to help Iskashitaa continue to provide services to our clients
-DELIVER nutritious FOOD to those in need in our community
-EDUCATE yourself on refugee resettlement by attending REFUGEE 101 in 2013
-Brush up your RESUME and make yourself more employable by INTERNING at Iskashitaa
-DONATE your fruit trees - we'll go harvest them at your home and prevent food WASTE
-EMPOWER an individual by mentoring them to navigate through Tucson
Contact Kristen Vellinger at volunteer@iskashitaa.org for more information or call 520-440-0100
-Eat WELL by purchasing Iskashitaa local food products
-Make a DIFFERENCE in someone's life by welcoming them to the United States
-Create new RELATIONSHIPS with United Nations' refugees while volunteering in our harvests and food workshops
-Eat LOCAL foods by purchasing Iskashitaa locally gleaned fruits and vegetables and lower your CARBON footprint
-Give a small monetary DONATION to help Iskashitaa continue to provide services to our clients
-DELIVER nutritious FOOD to those in need in our community
-EDUCATE yourself on refugee resettlement by attending REFUGEE 101 in 2013
-Brush up your RESUME and make yourself more employable by INTERNING at Iskashitaa
-DONATE your fruit trees - we'll go harvest them at your home and prevent food WASTE
-EMPOWER an individual by mentoring them to navigate through Tucson
Contact Kristen Vellinger at volunteer@iskashitaa.org for more information or call 520-440-0100
Monday, January 14, 2013
Food for Thought
Ever attended a Food for Thought event? Here is your chance: Thursday, January 17th 6:00pm at Zemam's Ethiopian Restaurant located at 2731 E. Broadway.
Join Iskashitaa refugees and volunteers as we share a meal and great conversation. Zemam's makes their own injera and beautifully seasoned Ethiopian food. Cost of the event is the cost of your meal plus a bit to help cover refugee meals (usually no more than $15 total). Participants must RSVP to Annlee Laughlin at 520-299-9063 (St. Francis) or520-299-3298,
Join Iskashitaa refugees and volunteers as we share a meal and great conversation. Zemam's makes their own injera and beautifully seasoned Ethiopian food. Cost of the event is the cost of your meal plus a bit to help cover refugee meals (usually no more than $15 total). Participants must RSVP to Annlee Laughlin at 520-299-9063 (St. Francis) or520-299-3298,
annleelaughlin@gmail.com by Monday, Januray 14.
Reunited with his family after 13 years
Reunited with his family after 13 years Tilahun held a bouquet of roses and stared at a monitor with anxious excitement. He was waiting to see his son, Metasebia, and wife, Yewbdar, come down the arrival stairs at the Tucson International Airport. He hugged
his wife with tears in his eyes and was astonished at how much his son had grown, now taller than him. Tilahun was forced to flee Ethiopia in 1999 after spending three months in prison for refusing to take part in his country's politics, he left his country to ensure his wife's and infant
son's safety.
After ten years of living in a refugee camp, he was resettled in the United States since March 2010. For years Tilahun felt pain and doubt for his family's well being, yet he would never lose hope of seeing them again. December 19 marked the date when Iskashitaa's client, volunteer, and friend, Tilahun Liben, was reunited with his family after 13 years of separation."This is my gift for me, a Christmas gift", Tilahun told KVOA reporter on December 19th, "I don't need any Christmas trees; they [my wife and son] are my Christmas gift." We welcome Metasebia and Yewbdar to our Iskashitaa family and Tucson community.
Tilahun has participated in harvests and cooking workshops, tutoring, and is a member of Iskashitaa's internal speakers bureau, sharing information about the refugee experience with community groups. We look forward to welcoming his family into our diverse programs and connecting them to community resources as well.
By: Lizbeth Gonzalez, Programs Manager
his wife with tears in his eyes and was astonished at how much his son had grown, now taller than him. Tilahun was forced to flee Ethiopia in 1999 after spending three months in prison for refusing to take part in his country's politics, he left his country to ensure his wife's and infant
son's safety.
After ten years of living in a refugee camp, he was resettled in the United States since March 2010. For years Tilahun felt pain and doubt for his family's well being, yet he would never lose hope of seeing them again. December 19 marked the date when Iskashitaa's client, volunteer, and friend, Tilahun Liben, was reunited with his family after 13 years of separation."This is my gift for me, a Christmas gift", Tilahun told KVOA reporter on December 19th, "I don't need any Christmas trees; they [my wife and son] are my Christmas gift." We welcome Metasebia and Yewbdar to our Iskashitaa family and Tucson community.
Tilahun has participated in harvests and cooking workshops, tutoring, and is a member of Iskashitaa's internal speakers bureau, sharing information about the refugee experience with community groups. We look forward to welcoming his family into our diverse programs and connecting them to community resources as well.
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