Refugees Proposal

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Christopher Raines

Ms. Green

English 10 H

Block 4

06/09/15

Grant Proposal to help refugees
Part 1 Me and the American Refugee Committee are requesting for 40% of the 1,000,000 that is being offered to us. The American Refugee Committee is a charity that raises money to assist refugees. Our stated mission is to “Work with refugees, displaced people, and those at risk to help them survive crises and rebuild lives of dignity, health, security, and self-sufficiency.”(Stated Mission) We would like to use the money that will be provided to us to further help more refugees. On charity watch we have been given an A+ rating. We have we have seven principles that we follow when we help people. “We hold ourselves to the highest standards of transparency,
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The society provided help to Darfur with economics and improvement of health care. We helped Uganda overcome the obstacles of displacement and develop sustainable livelihoods while supporting people who cannot meet their basic needs. We helped Sudan by facilitating the successful repatriation and reintegration of Sudanese refugees and internally displaced people. We enhanced their capacity to become self-reliant and lead vital services to meet the needs of more than 600,000 people. We served afghan refugees who have fled to pakistan to escape drought, civil war and constant conflict and threats. We helped Rwanda provide essential services in three major camps; assisting more than 53,000 refugees from Eastern Demographic Republic of Congo. We provide water, construction and sanitation to help in desperate needs such as clean water, health care, sanitary facilities and basic essentials. All of these areas that we assisted shows how we would be an appropriate grantee because it shows that we are gonna use our money in good use to help others. (Gonna be edited and extended …show more content…
A Laotian refugee who Neal sponsored helped with his early attempts to assist refugees. In December 1978 ARC was incorporated in the State of Illinois. In 1979 Neal established ARC’s offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota and formalized ARC sponsorship actions after finding its first director, Stan Breen, who lived in Minnesota and was working for Governor Wendell Anderson. In the beginning ARC’s goal was finite: clear the refugee camps and help refugees that traveled to America integrate them into society and productive lives. ARC initially began with the understanding that ARC’s mission would end with the resolution of the Cambodian refugee crisis that occurred after the end of the Vietnam War (1979). To that end Neal wanted to fully utilize the private sectors' resources (financial and human) to develop and train sponsors for refugee camps in Southeast Asia. As ARC fulfilled its original mission it was faced with the question of ceasing operations or expanding its mission internationally to assist refugees in similar crises. ARC staff "worked with a commitment to putting ourselves out of a job.” To answer this question, the Refugee Policy Group performed a contracted evaluation of ARC’s activities, impact, and value in 1984. Their final report “indicated that ARC was valued, respected, and needed…it also noted that its value