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AZ - Tucson - Catholic Social Service - Migration and Refugee Services |
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Imagine this: You've lived your whole life in peace, surrounded by friends and family. Then, without warning, everything changes. Lifelong neighbors suddenly hate you. Your home is destroyed. Dodging bombs and bullets, you flee, taking nothing with you but your life. Then, if you're lucky, you find yourself in a foreign land, alone, bewildered, but safe. You are now a refugee.
International law defines refugees as people who are unable or unwilling to return to their countries because of a well-founded fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or belonging to a particular social group. What international law does not describe is the sheer courage and hope that characterize most refugees, wherever they are.
Every year a small number of refugees are welcomed by the United States Government to resettle in the United States and rebuild their lives that have been destroyed by war and persecution. Migration and Refugee Services (MRS), a program of Catholic Social Service, helps refugees, regardless of religious affiliation, achieve self-sufficiency and independance as quickly as possible after their arrival in Tucson, Arizona. |
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Mahvash
Yazdani
(520) 623-0344 ext. 1055
mahvashy@ccs-soaz.org |
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http://www.ccs-soaz.org/mrsfortherefugee.htm |
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