The current forced displacement situation is ongoing and as such there are numerous opportunities to get involved meaningfully. Whatever your skill set, with a little searching there will almost certainly be a role that you could fulfill, whether it is working at an organization or starting your own project.
At Vassar
If you are a student at Vassar, you can get involved in many ways:
- Apply to be on Vassar Refugee Solidarity Student Leadership Team to head one of our existing projects or start a new one. For more information on this, contact Mojan Farid (mfarid@vassar.edu) or Zoë Zahariadis (zzahariadis@vassar.edu).
- Get in touch with Lisa Kaul (likaul@vassar.edu) at the newly created Vassar Office of Community-Engaged Learning to get involved locally
Volunteer to be a general body member and step-up when needed. For more information on this, contact Mojan Farid (mfarid@vassar.edu) or Zoë Zahariadis (zzahariadis@vassar.edu).
Everyone
- The Vassar Career Development Office (CDO) publishes extensive listings of internship opportunities, most of which are available even if you do not go to Vassar. There are many listing and directories in which you can search for refugee-related internships.
- Internship Resource Directory
- Internships-USA
- Internships.com
- And many more! Check out the CDO’s internship website for more information.
- Donate to the Mid-Hudson Refugee Solidarity Alliance.
Affiliate Organizations
We have a wonderful group of affiliate organizations who we are working with. Learn more about any of them by clicking on the links below!
Local Congregations
- Vassar Temple
- Christ Episcopal Church
- Mid-Hudson Islamic Association and Masjid Al-Noor
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern
- Shir Chadash
- Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church
- Temple Beth El
- Reconstructionist Synagogue, New Paltz
- Bruderhof
- Beacon Hebrew Union Alliance
- Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck
- Goodwill Church
- Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church
Colleges
- Vassar College and the Vassar Refugee Solidarity Initiative
- Mount St Mary College
- Bard College
- SUNY New Paltz
- SUNY, Dutchess County Community College
- Marist College and the Marist Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership
- Culinary Institute of America
Community organizations
- Dutchess County Interfaith Council
- Greater Newburgh Interfaith Council
- VFW Post 8645, New Paltz
- Veterans for Peace Hudson Valley Chapter 177
- Hudson Valley Chapter of the United Nations Association
- Hudson Valley Chapter of Amnesty International
- Rabbi Erwin Zimet Memorial Institute
- Tristate Jewish Network for Refugee Support
Mid-Hudson Refugee Solidarity Alliance Partners
