Refugee Immigration Ministry

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Basic Information

Address: 142 Pleasant St., Suite 203 Malden, MA 02148
Phone Number: 781-322-1011
Fax Number: 781-322-1013
Director: Rev. Ruth Bersin

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Additional Information

Causes Served: Community-based resettlement
Clearances Required: Yes
Background Check: Yes
Population Served: Asylum seekers, asylees, refugees
Ages for Volunteer: 18 +
Hours of Service: varies: regular business hours or some evenings
Minimum Hours Required: varies
Days of Service: varies
Mission Statement:

Building Community with Uprooted People to Serve the Common Good.

Philosophy/Belief Statement:

Refugee Immigration Ministry provides community-based services for its clients. This support allows them to find employment as soon as they receive work authorization, builds social capital upon which they can stand to enter the community and offers them friendship and support at the most vulnerable time of their lives.

Program History:

RIM is an interfaith, community-based organization that was founded in 1986.

RIM’s volunteers bring clients into relationships with their communities. Programs include:
•community-based resettlement of asylum seekers and refugees
•job preparation through English and computer classes
•Spiritual Care Givers who provide chaplaincy services to immigrant detainees.
•Case Management: All programs rest upon a strong Case Management plan, offering "new life and hope to uprooted people". As one client summed it up, "You took me from nowhere to somewhere."
Events Committee for planning special fund raisers and gatherings.

Events:

International Dinner ever fall and International Concert every Spring. This year's International Concert will be held on May 5, 2010 at Old South Church in downtown Boston.