Refugee Immigration Ministry and the ArCS cluster

There was an amazing story in today’s Boston Globe, about a group a volunteers in Arlington, Cambridge and Somerville who are helping refugees acclimate to the area. Some provide housing and transportation, others take asylum-seekers shopping or make lists of appropriate social services, or just plain make themselves available to be a friend. Today, I made a donation to the “ArCS cluster,” which is the umbrella the group is known by.

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