Finding Community: Receiving Support and Comfort
May 3rd, 2024
This article was written by Lubna Zeidan, iACT for Refugees Co-Director.
Two years without meeting in person is a very long time! The Austin Refugee Roundtable, a group of nonprofits, businesses and volunteer groups who support refugees in Austin work …
This article was written by Lubna Zeidan, iACT Refugee Program Director
In recent weeks, and with the war in Ukraine getting top billing on the news, we have received numerous inquiries about Ukrainian refugees coming to Austin.
The Refugee Resettlement …
The iACT Refugee ESL Program is providing English classes for families like the Shinwari family who were evacuated from Afghanistan in August 2021, spent several months living on various U.S. military bases awaiting resettlement to local communities, and are now …
This article was written by Kate Kadyan, iACT volunteer with St. Stephen’s Episcopal School.
An almost universal complaint found across highschool campuses is online learning – a fair criticism, as online learning is connected to isolation, anxiety, and less effective …
Written by Lubna Zeidan, iACT Refugee Program Co-Director
Happy New Year to all and a special greeting to all our Austin supporters who were tirelessly and actively helping refugees in 2021. A lot has been happening the refugee world and …
Interfaith Action of Central Texas (iACT) interviewed 24 refugees and asylees from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Iraq, and Sudan who had come to the US at different times during the last 10 years. The …
This article was written by Lubna Zeidan, iACT Refugee Program Director.
With the withdrawal from Afghanistan over 55000 Afghan nationals were moved to 8 military bases in the US.
After the initial airlift, flights arrive at different US bases overseas …
This article was written by Suzin Sciabarasi.
My friend Bobby Manley and I met Abdul and Zahra in September 2016 when he was 13 and she was 16. Their family had just arrived in the US in April of that …
What happens to the Afghan refugees and Special Immigrant Visa recipients who are arriving to the US?
They are being processed at the different bases they arrive at in the United States. They are initially vetted at the first foreign …
iACT would like to thank all of those who reached out with offers of support for the expected arrival of Afghan families due to the current evacuation.
iACT as well as other refugee service providers have already been working with …