Cuala L.A Updates
In 2023 we obtained the necessary permissions to facilitate a family with three children to leave Afghanistan and travel to Mexico. Thanks to the help of Cuala donors, a handful of volunteers and a partnership with Asylum Access Mexico, we were able to support the family there for five months until they were able to cross the U.S. border where they are now successfully settled in California.
From December 2021 through 2023 we supported the resettlement of 31 Afghan refugees in Los Angeles and Orange County, paying for hotel accommodation, gradually moving them into housing, sourcing furniture, purchasing needed new items, providing resettlement support for the entire group, connecting them with services, enrolling children in elementary school and older teens in junior college, helping everyone enroll in English language classes. and connecting them with work opportunities.
This was complex work over a long period of time that was done as a group of Afghan, Irish, and US volunteers and in collaboration with Afghan Refugee Relief.
We continue to support a small group of Afghans.
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