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Support Asylum Seekers and Their Children in 2023!
In Vermont and around the U.S., April is celebrated as the Month of the Young Child. As we reflect on what that means for those of us offering support to asylum seekers, one of the questions we ask ourselves is this: what would force you to flee your home and leave your child behind?
It may be difficult for many of us to imagine a circumstance so terrifying that protecting our children from death or detention meant leaving them in the care of someone else and escaping without knowing whether we would ever see them again. Yet it is one that thousands of asylum seekers in this country have faced. Asylum seekers have been forced to leave their children, aging parents, partners, siblings, and other loved ones behind in order to seek safety in the United States. Because the journey is so dangerous, and has been made more dangerous by the border policies imposed by the U.S. government, asylum seekers are confronted with an impossible choice which only gets harder with time. Here in Brattleboro, four of the families we support have been separated from their children in exactly this way.
Among the many forms of legal and direct aid that we offer to asylum seekers, we are currently accompanying three mothers in legal efforts to reunite with their children here in Vermont, and one father in obtaining a travel document to see his child abroad. On behalf of these families, we are navigating complex bureaucratic systems. On some days this involves communicating with local and international government agencies and attorneys, traveling to consulates, and translating, notarizing, and apostilling documents. We don’t yet know if the reunifications will be successful; there are many barriers that stand in the way. But as we ask ourselves what would force us to leave our children, we also have to ask: What would you do to help someone else see their children again?
Donate to CASP so we can continue to pursue these reunifications and all the other services we provide to new neighbors. This Spring, if you become a sustaining monthly donor at $10 a month or more, we'll send you a hat!
We are glad to partner with you in serving the needs of asylum seekers in Southern Vermont, and to celebrate the lives they are building, with their families, in this community.
Thank you for being in it with us.
Community Asylum Seekers Project
It may be difficult for many of us to imagine a circumstance so terrifying that protecting our children from death or detention meant leaving them in the care of someone else and escaping without knowing whether we would ever see them again. Yet it is one that thousands of asylum seekers in this country have faced. Asylum seekers have been forced to leave their children, aging parents, partners, siblings, and other loved ones behind in order to seek safety in the United States. Because the journey is so dangerous, and has been made more dangerous by the border policies imposed by the U.S. government, asylum seekers are confronted with an impossible choice which only gets harder with time. Here in Brattleboro, four of the families we support have been separated from their children in exactly this way.
Among the many forms of legal and direct aid that we offer to asylum seekers, we are currently accompanying three mothers in legal efforts to reunite with their children here in Vermont, and one father in obtaining a travel document to see his child abroad. On behalf of these families, we are navigating complex bureaucratic systems. On some days this involves communicating with local and international government agencies and attorneys, traveling to consulates, and translating, notarizing, and apostilling documents. We don’t yet know if the reunifications will be successful; there are many barriers that stand in the way. But as we ask ourselves what would force us to leave our children, we also have to ask: What would you do to help someone else see their children again?
Donate to CASP so we can continue to pursue these reunifications and all the other services we provide to new neighbors. This Spring, if you become a sustaining monthly donor at $10 a month or more, we'll send you a hat!
We are glad to partner with you in serving the needs of asylum seekers in Southern Vermont, and to celebrate the lives they are building, with their families, in this community.
Thank you for being in it with us.
Community Asylum Seekers Project
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Support Asylum Seekers and Their Children in 2023!
In Vermont and around the U.S., April is celebrated as the Month of the Young Child. As we reflect on what that means for those of us offering support to asylum seekers, one of the questions we ask ourselves is this: what would force you to flee your home and leave your child behind?
It may be difficult for many of us to imagine a circumstance so terrifying that protecting our children from death or detention meant leaving them in the care of someone else and escaping without knowing whether we would ever see them again. Yet it is one that thousands of asylum seekers in this country have faced. Asylum seekers have been forced to leave their children, aging parents, partners, siblings, and other loved ones behind in order to seek safety in the United States. Because the journey is so dangerous, and has been made more dangerous by the border policies imposed by the U.S. government, asylum seekers are confronted with an impossible choice which only gets harder with time. Here in Brattleboro, four of the families we support have been separated from their children in exactly this way.
Among the many forms of legal and direct aid that we offer to asylum seekers, we are currently accompanying three mothers in legal efforts to reunite with their children here in Vermont, and one father in obtaining a travel document to see his child abroad. On behalf of these families, we are navigating complex bureaucratic systems. On some days this involves communicating with local and international government agencies and attorneys, traveling to consulates, and translating, notarizing, and apostilling documents. We don’t yet know if the reunifications will be successful; there are many barriers that stand in the way. But as we ask ourselves what would force us to leave our children, we also have to ask: What would you do to help someone else see their children again?
Donate to CASP so we can continue to pursue these reunifications and all the other services we provide to new neighbors. This Spring, if you become a sustaining monthly donor at $10 a month or more, we'll send you a hat!
We are glad to partner with you in serving the needs of asylum seekers in Southern Vermont, and to celebrate the lives they are building, with their families, in this community.
Thank you for being in it with us.
Community Asylum Seekers Project
It may be difficult for many of us to imagine a circumstance so terrifying that protecting our children from death or detention meant leaving them in the care of someone else and escaping without knowing whether we would ever see them again. Yet it is one that thousands of asylum seekers in this country have faced. Asylum seekers have been forced to leave their children, aging parents, partners, siblings, and other loved ones behind in order to seek safety in the United States. Because the journey is so dangerous, and has been made more dangerous by the border policies imposed by the U.S. government, asylum seekers are confronted with an impossible choice which only gets harder with time. Here in Brattleboro, four of the families we support have been separated from their children in exactly this way.
Among the many forms of legal and direct aid that we offer to asylum seekers, we are currently accompanying three mothers in legal efforts to reunite with their children here in Vermont, and one father in obtaining a travel document to see his child abroad. On behalf of these families, we are navigating complex bureaucratic systems. On some days this involves communicating with local and international government agencies and attorneys, traveling to consulates, and translating, notarizing, and apostilling documents. We don’t yet know if the reunifications will be successful; there are many barriers that stand in the way. But as we ask ourselves what would force us to leave our children, we also have to ask: What would you do to help someone else see their children again?
Donate to CASP so we can continue to pursue these reunifications and all the other services we provide to new neighbors. This Spring, if you become a sustaining monthly donor at $10 a month or more, we'll send you a hat!
We are glad to partner with you in serving the needs of asylum seekers in Southern Vermont, and to celebrate the lives they are building, with their families, in this community.
Thank you for being in it with us.
Community Asylum Seekers Project
