Engagement Menu
Hi Immigrant Food Friends,
Each week, we send you 5 ways to engage with immigrants. Whether through donations, volunteering, or educating yourself, you can make a difference! Share this email with friends, family and colleagues, and if you are not subscribed, make sure to visit our website immigrantfood.com and join our community!
In this week‘s Engagement Menu, you’ll find volunteering, donating, and events that support the immigrant community.
#UnitedAtTheTable
– The Immigrant Food Team
To learn about our 5 NGO impact partners, see here: https://immigrantfood.com/engage/impact-partners/
1. Volunteer: Gilchrist Immigrant Resource Center
Gilchrist Immigrant Resource Center | Ongoing
Consider volunteering to help students learn new skills that will allow them to support themselves, their families, and encourage a sense of community.
2. Donate: Advocates for Justice and Education Reform Inc.
Advocates for Justice and Education Reform Inc. | Ongoing
Support families advocating for the educational rights of their children. AJE provides free direct services, training, and advocacy to DC families, primarily those who have children with disabilities and special health care needs.
3. Read: Homegoing
Homegoing | Ongoing
Yaa Gyasi’s novel is about a breathtaking journey through generations, exploring how the legacy of slavery and colonialism shapes family, identity, and resilience across time and continents.
4. Listen: Inside Immigration, “Creative Expression of the Immigrant Experience”
Inside Immigration, “Creative Expression of the Immigrant Experience” | Ongoing
This episode explores how creative expression, like poetry and storytelling, powerfully convey the immigrant experience, fostering empathy and cultural connection.
5. Attend: Haitian Corner, Exile and Memory in Haitian Cinema Spirit & Strength: Modern Art from Haiti
Haitian Corner, Exile and Memory in Haitian Cinema Spirit & Strength: Modern Art from Haiti | November 23, 2024, 2 – 3:45 PM | National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium
From the beginnings of Haitian cinema to the present, the films mediate distances that are not only geographic, bridging intervals of memory and separations of families.