Community Organizing

If you are a refugee interested in working to strengthen and empower your community or joining the Integration Working Group, reach out to CWSG Refugee Community Organizer Maria Cortez at mcortezperez@cwsglobal.org or call the CWSG office at 336-617-0381.

CARE Groups

Coordinated by the CWS Durham and Greensboro offices, the CARE Program seeks to pair groups of dedicated community sponsors with resettled refugees in their communities to support their quest for upward mobility and full integration. Check out the information below to learn more about this program! What is the CARE Program? Although CWS provides several avenues of support for refugees …

Impact Reports and Financials

LOCAL GREENSBORO IMPACT REPORTS: CWS Greensboro FY2021 Impact Report CWS Greensboro CY2019 Impact Report   FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: CWS Greensboro operates under the governance of CWS Global’s Board of Directors and our finances are included in the CWS Global annual audit. Here are CWS Global’s audited reports from the past several years: CWS Global 2020 Audited Financials CWS Global 2019 Audited …

Rihab and Mustafa

Today, I had the pleasure of meeting with Rihab and her family. Though both she and her husband Mustafa are from Sudan originally, they lived for several years working in United Arab Emirates.  Mustafa moved to U.A.E. first when he began working as a Bank Manager with the National Bank of Abu Dhabi. Rihab, on the other hand, worked as …

Yvon and Blanche

Yvon and Blanche fled their home in Central African Republic in 2013, trying to escape the civil war and political unrest in the country. Yvon, scared for the safety of his family, decided to move them all to a refugee camp in neighbouring country Chad. They lived there for the next 6 years, until they were resettled to Greensboro in …

An Anniversary Tale

Maricarmen arrived in the United States three years ago today. When she and her daughter landed in Miami, she thought they would just stay a couple weeks and then return to their home in Venezuela. Her husband had been detained by the military several weeks before, and Maricarmen hoped that taking her daughter away for a vacation would pass the …

The Sense of Belonging

When Ann appeared for her citizenship interview and exam before U.S. Immigration in early September, she knew she had to get it right. She was from the Bahamas and five days before taking her exams, Hurricane Dorian flattened the house where she had lived, leaving friends and family members dead or missing. “I had nothing to go back to. All …

Reunited After 8 Years…

          Nan Mon arrived in the United States as a Burmese refugee in 2011. At the time, she was a young, single mother of a four-year-old son and had spent most of her life in a refugee camp in Thailand. When she and her child were approved to resettle in the United States, she left her …