U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI): Community Food and Resource Informational Gathering

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From U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI):

Join us for an informative event focused on recent SNAP updates, designed to support Refugee, Asylee, SIV, and other immigrant community members. This resource fair will connect attendees with local food assistance programs and provide boxes of nutritious food and fresh produce to those who have recently lost SNAP benefits.

Speakers include:

• Sonali Samarasinghe - Field Office Director, USCRI VT
• Vermont State Treasurer Mike Pieciak
• James McNerney - Office of Senator Peter Welch
• Dan Smith - CEO, Greater Burlington YMCA
• Tracy Dolan - State Refugee Director
• Molly Gray - Executive Director, Vermont Afghan Alliance
• Miriam Ehtesham-Cating - Director of Program for Multilingual Learners, Burlington School District
• Mariana Sears - Outreach Manager, Hunger Free Vermont
• Johanna Doren - Direct Markets & Local Food Access Director, Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT)
• Kyle Weatherhogg - Senior Manager, Vermont Foodbank
• Michele Denault - Program Manager, Health & Wellness
• Matt Thompson - Program Manager, Refugee Services

The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), established in 1911, is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit international organization dedicated to addressing the needs and rights of refugees and immigrants. USCRI, working with its affiliates, provides legal services, social, and health services to refugees, unaccompanied migrating children, trafficking survivors, and other immigrants in all 50 states, El Salvador, Honduras, Kenya, and Mexico. USCRI advocates for the rights of refugees and immigrants both nationally and globally, helping to drive policies, practices and law.

For more information visit: https://refugees.org/uscri-vermont/

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