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Summer Book Drive

Our women’s English classes have been running for over 10 years now! It’s been beautiful to see our student body grow from just a handful in 2013 to having served 114 women in the past school year (and nearly 70 preschool aged children as well!). One of the ways we’d like to expand the program [...]

2023-06-26T16:40:15-05:00June 5th, 2023|Categories: Nashville|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Read at Your Own Risk – “Once We Were Strangers” Book Review

I sat down to read this book because I was looking for something I could hand a potential volunteer to help them learn, grow, and shift expectations. I expected a neatly packaged story of helping a refugee to success, and I (in my pride) was prepared to look down my nose at him for his [...]

2020-10-27T11:14:31-05:00May 28th, 2019|Categories: Home Office, Nashville|Tags: , , , , , , |

Volunteer for Summer Feed and Read Program!

We had so much fun last summer bringing books, crafts, and activities to kids! Each week we served alongside our team of great volunteers to not only serve lunch, but also to entertain, inspire and educate. We get to do it again this summer and we need your help to be the hands and feet [...]

2020-10-27T11:14:31-05:00May 2nd, 2019|Categories: Nashville|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Summer Volunteer Opportunity – Refugee Kids’ Story Time

This summer, each Wednesday afternoon in July, we'll be taking a team of volunteers to a Nashville apartment complex where hundreds of refugee children are wasting away their summer hours playing video games and watching TV. Our goal is to change that. We've picked out four classic children's stories and will share one each week.  We [...]

2020-10-27T11:14:34-05:00April 10th, 2018|Categories: Nashville|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |
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