“The Power of Giving: Stories of Volunteerism” – Story #8
September 4, 2009 by admin
Filed under CPTV's "Power of Giving", Video
Sophie Tworkowski, Greg Seaman, and Lois Smith are the leaders of a group of volunteers from the Unitarian Universalist Society in Hamden who have been helping to re-settle a refugee family from Iraq in a co-sponsorship arrangement with Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS). Sophie and her group provided the Iraqi family with a temporary home when they first arrived, found and renovated an apartment, and continue to provide on-going support by providing ESL lessons, childcare, shopping trips, doctor visits, as well as help locating educational and employment opportunities. Sophie states, “This refugee family is no longer a church project, they are truly a family to us now.”
