OneHouse Immigration Initiate intends to assist newly comers in their settling in the States, by providing them with education, service, advocacy, and participation opportunity. The project plans to establish online information and referral service and network among the new comers, to serve immigrant community at large.
Do you know any immigrant family new to your neighborhood? Be their hero by simply saying “Hello.” Do you see a foreigner who has limited language skill? Be their voice. Many immigrant family, whether their English skill is good or poor, they often pay for language services almost for anything, setting utility bills, job application, public office visit, any interview to go, or even health care incidence. Mostly, they need a friend who can stand for them.
OneHouse Heroes
OneHouse Heroes honors ordinary people who performed extraordinary acts of welcome, courage, protection, or sacrifice for immigrants, newcomers, visitors, and people who were unfamiliar with the society around them.
A hero may have opened a home, provided food or transportation, defended someone facing discrimination, helped a family understand an unfamiliar system, protected a person in danger, supported a newcomer’s education, or quietly sacrificed time, income, comfort, or opportunity so that another person could survive and begin again.
A stranger’s struggle can become our responsibility when we recognize that we belong to one human house.
OneHouse Heroes may be nominated by community members. With appropriate permission and respect for privacy, their stories will be preserved and shared so that acts of courage and compassion are not forgotten.