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Date(s) - October 5, 2013
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October 5, 2013: RIDE for REFUGE
Several teams of Journey Home Community supporters will participate in the annual RIDE for REFUGE this year. The Ride is the biggest annual fundraiser for the Association, and this year we hope to raise $25,000.
Back in late 2005 when we began to operate “officially” as Journey Home Community we were basically a “family business”. We had a very low budget, mostly funded by the donations of a few committed volunteers, our “board” consisted of three people who met regularly to try to get the most urgent items of business on track, and we were already assisting four refugee families in the best way we could.
The years since then have been a time of major transition, as we moved from that smaller but important mission of reaching a few refugee claimant families with the love of Jesus, into a broader and expanded vision of what it would take to meet the needs of hundreds of refugees who are claiming asylum in this part of Canada each year.
We currently help about 12 to 16 new families per year with transitional housing (apartment suites in Burnaby and New Westminster) and have supported over 40 additional families with resettlement assistance and in their move to more permanent housing. We also have numerous volunteer teams who come alongside families and provide the relational support so necessary at this point in their journey.