Mentoring Refugees: Assisting with Resettlement in Anchorage - Dec. 3, 2012

Monday, Dec. 3, 5-7 p.m.
UAA Campus Bookstore

Join us as several mentors share their experiences in volunteering with the Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services program, offered by Catholic Social Services, welcoming and orienting new refugees to Anchorage. Family mentors have volunteer agreements for a minimum of six months and a wealth of new experiences and new cultural understandings for themselves! Nathan Welker, a student at UAA, began as a family mentor as a capstone experience in the Civic Engagement Certificate program and following an internship in Senegal. He created this panel presentation as a part of his capstone course.

This event is free and open to the public with free parking in the South Lot, the lot just across from the bookstore. For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.