As I have stated in several of my previous posts, we need ladies willing to mentor other young refugee women. We currently have several young refugee women/mothers who are in great need of an American friend. Most of our refugee women/moms are not educated and were raised in refugee camps by young uneducated mothers themselves. Our friends lack some important basic skills to living life in America. Some of our friends have poor parenting skills and would actually welcome advice and help. Asha’s Refuge wants to take a proactive stand by helping single or struggling parents to be successful at raising their children to prevent children from being neglected or orphaned. We want to be proactive in preventing young women and children from being victims of sex trafficking, prostitution and other crimes.

If you have a heart to help in this area, please contact us. We will ask that you first attend our 1-1/2 hour orientation (May 17 @ 6pm held at The Church of Schilling Farms, 1035 Winchester, Collierville, TN) and also receive our one on one training that will involve shadowing our Asha’s Staff as we make regular visits to our refugee friends. There is additional training that you could take with Christ Community Health Services regarding family advocacy for refugees that could also be of interest to you. Walking beside a struggling refugee as a friend/mentor definitely requires your time, but as our friend Steve Moses from Christ Community Health Services has said (but in my best wording), “Invite a new friend into your life, you shouldn’t have to change your life all around to accommodate them”. We want to encourage and empower our friends not cause them to become dependent upon us.

Please let us know if you can help. Thank you!