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Saad Mohammad Ali had volunteered for six months at World Relief, helping the agency resettle arriving Iraqi refuges, when a manager suggested he apply for an Arabic-speaking caseworker job. The ...
World Relief Seattle says it has tripled its staff since last year to help work with more refugees and that 10 percent of their staff is Ukrainian. They also added a new office in Bellingham and ...
World Relief Seattle and Lutheran Community Services Northwest and other resettlement agencies have been scrambling to find refugees temporary and permanent housing. They say much more help is needed.
World Relief Seattle works with local churches and volunteers to help refugees find homes, apply for a driver’s license, or set up appointments.
The devastating tsunamis that crashed into countries around the Indian Ocean, killing perhaps 52,000 people, have been described as a 100-year event. The around-the-world relief effort ...
World Relief Seattle has two offices in King County and Whatcom County. The King County office is located at 23835 Pacific Hwy S, Suite 100 in Kent, WA, which can be contacted by calling (253) 277 ...
"We have de-paved over 50,000 square feet of asphalt and put in garden beds," said Tahmina Martelly, a program manager for World Relief Seattle, which founded the garden. "We have 44 in-ground ...
Chitra Hanstad (right) is executive director of World Relief Seattle. In the latest edition of Giving Done Right, a podcast produced by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, hosts Phil Buchanan and ...
The 3rd hour of TODAY spotlights the nonprofit World Relief Seattle, which offers refugees hope through a community garden called Paradise Parking Plots, created in a previously abandoned parking ...
Relief organizations in the Seattle area are having to get creative to find housing for an expected influx of refugees from Afghanistan. With affordable housing in scarce supply, they're asking ...
In February 2020, the two leaders told World Relief’s board of directors they planned to retire in August 2021, giving the board 18 months to plan for a transition.
SEATTLE Seattle relief organization World Concern is still waiting to hear what has happened to at least 30 staff members who are unaccounted for in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. World Concern has ...