Written by: Marsha Akoto, RISE | JFS Group Programming Over the past several months, I have had the great opportunity to facilitate HIAS Women’s Empowerment Groups within the RISE department. …
When you make a gift to support the work at JFS, you are directly supporting individuals who receive our services. Individuals like Sasha, who was forced to flee her home in …
Refugee families get a fresh start in Delaware For the past two years, after political restrictions and the worldwide pandemic halted refugee admissions to the United States, Jewish Family Services …
Jewish Family Services of Delaware (JFS), the state’s only refugee resettlement agency, is in close and consistent contact with state officials and national partners at HIAS regarding our state’s response to …
June 20 is World Refugee Day and JFS is grateful to share that our refugee services have not been idle during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the virus brought many things …
NPR: Given how much work is necessary to resettle a single refugee family, the prospect of vastly and suddenly increased refugee admissions is barely feasible, in large part because the …
Asia Bhatti is familiar with health crises. The Newark woman remembers the long, hard hours she worked as a nurse in Pakistan during an outbreak of dengue fever in 2011 …
Refugees and asylum-seekers are welcome in Delaware. That’s the message state leaders sent to the White House, December 18, in response to a presidential executive order
Published January 3, 2020 by Jeanne Kuong (Delaware Online) Arriving in Delaware in 2018, Pathy Mulema said he felt “like I’m in heaven.” It had been four years since he …
Stepping into the JFS file room, I curiously scanned the packed shelves, eventually discovering the old boxes marked “Archives, 1948-1951.” JFS’ 120th anniversary provided me the unique opportunity to search …
