February 19, 2022
After a holiday break, we returned to the Afghan Youth Relief Foundation to bring much needed attention to organizing their donations. In addition to GUSVA members – we were joined by students from Campus Ministry and the McDonough School of Business’ volunteer student organization. We had over 20 volunteers! Check back with us for our March service projects!
October 30, 2021
Unfortunately, the volunteer event for today was cancelled due to a terrorist threat in the Springfield, VA area.
You can still find ways you can help – If you’re looking for something to do on the weekend, you can check out the Afghan Youth Relief Foundation’s Linktree.
Unfortunately, the volunteer event for today was cancelled due to a terrorist threat in the Springfield, VA area.
You can still find ways you can help – If you’re looking for something to do on the weekend, you can check out the Afghan Youth Relief Foundation’s Linktree.
October 24, 2021
GUSVA volunteers headed 3-hours south of DC to Ft. Pickett (near Richmond) to volunteer with Afghan relief efforts.
October 3, 2021
GUSVA volunteering with VFW 9274 to transport donations from a storage facility in Washington, DC to the Afghan Youth Relief Foundation site.
September 11, 2021
Our largest event! For National Day of Service, we worked with the Afghanistan Youth Relief Foundation, and brought 36 volunteers from Georgetown! Our team included folks from Navy ROTC, as well as community allies.
In his photo also includes Secretary Denis McDonough of the Veterans Affairs Department.
September 8, 2021
Thank you all who have signed up with us and who are interested in volunteering with us – we had to close our sign up because we reached our cap.
You can still volunteer in the future with us as a group or you can volunteer independently with the Afghan Youth Relief Foundation by going to their link tree (https://linktr.ee/AYRF).
September 7, 2021
For September 11, we will be volunteering with the Afghan Youth Relief Foundation in Chantilly, VA – across the street from the Dulles Expo.
Time: 1-4pm
Activities: Sorting donations and moving boxes
Location: A1 Nationwide Commercial Flooring4425 Brookfield Corporate Dr. Suite 600, Chantilly, VA 20120
While we will be volunteering as a group on September 11, you can still volunteer independently during the week.
Please use the sign up button below if you would like to join us as a group.
August 28, 2021
This week we’ve been helping sort and organize donations at VFW Post 9274. We appreciate those volunteers who joined us.
However, the VFW (as well as other nonprofits in the DMV) has stopped receiving donations because the Dulles Expo is no longer accepting these donations.
We have shifted our attention to to providing support to Lawful Permit Residents (LPRs). LPRs are Afghan people who arrived in the US previously as with Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), obtained LPR status, and then returned to Afghanistan. As LPRs they are not eligible for Refugee Resettlement Programs for assistance.
Currently, GUSVA is working to create a document to provide to LPRs that has available point of contacts and resources. As the Afghan Refugees are processed through Dulles, they are then sent to one of the following bases (as of today): Fort Lee, Virginia, Fort Bliss, Texas, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, and Fort Dix, New Jersey.
We are not sure what the process is for LPRs once they arrive in these location and thus are working to ensure they have someone (i.e. an agency/organization) to assist them with their needs.
Please use the sign up button below if you’d like to help research different organizations near these bases to provide to the LPRs. As the events continue to unfold, we will also have additional opportunities to help.
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