Covid-19 Guidelines

As we welcome guests who are leaving detention centers in Texas, California and elsewhere, it is important that we follow guidelines and protocols during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Because of close quarters and notoriously unsanitary conditions in detention centers, when asylum seekers are released, precautions need to be taken to protect the safety of guests, hosts, […]

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NEKASAN is a founding member of the Vermont-New Hampshire Asylum Support Network (VTNHASN). This network is comprised of 9 community-based asylum support groups in Vt & NH who work together to foster collaboration, share best practices, build capacity, raise public awareness of the issues involved in seeking asylum , and advocate for policies and funding that support our collective work and the asylum seekers with whom we work.

Check out the network website at https://vtasylumsupport.org/ and find:

  • The resources page to answer many of your questions about working with asylum seekers
  • The advocacy page to help you find contact information for your elected state and federal officials
  • Our members and partners contact information
  • Ways to volunteer and support our work locally