Tag: Asylum Seeker

Fleeing Persecution – Leaving Home

Posted on by Michelle Rutman
Asylum Seekers Leaving HOme

  Home, by Warsan Shire (Somali Poet) no one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a shark. you only run for the borderwhen you see the whole cityrunning as well. your neighbors running fasterthan you, the boy you went to school withwho kissed you dizzy behindthe old tin factory isholding a gun bigger than […]

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Covid-19 Guidelines

Posted on by Michelle Rutman

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

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