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Accomplishments through pictures
Read and see how your giving has and will continue to make a difference over the years. Click through each gallery.
The first phase of our work was to stabilize the children's living condition by providing personal hygiene items, clothing, shoes, bunk beds, bed sheets, and school materials.
In the second phase of our work, we built a school, separate dormitories for the girls and boys, and a multipurpose room that can serve as a library and learning area for life skills. We also expanded our work from one refugee camp to four. In the refugee camps with adults and families, we are creating sustainability through various opportunities for hands-on work. In the future we hope to expand to include a computer (technology) room, a clinic that houses a medical team, and opportunities for higher education.
2012:
WATW conducted informational interviews with ARRA (Administration for Refugee & Returnee Affairs).
Documented the present conditions at the refugee camps.
Learned the steps necessary to begin work in a refugee camp.
Learned what the needs are of the refugees.
2013:
WATW brought the items that were asked for:
Handed out personal hygiene items, shoes, clothes, umbrellas, etc.
WATW partnered with IHS (Innovative Humanitarian Solutions).
Traveled to several refugee camps and met with refugees.
Determined next times and prioritized what projects would be fund raised for.
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2014:
Thanks to our generous supporters from our successful first annual fundraiser in 2013, we were able to begin construction on separate dormitories for boys and girls, a multi-purpose room for kids to learn, and sanitary bathrooms.
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2015:
Thanks to the Rotary Club of Minneapolis and Rotary Club of Minnetonka-Excelsior, who set a match goal to be raised at our second annual fundraiser, hundreds of bunk beds were able to be purchased for unaccompanied minors who were sleeping on tarp mats on the concrete floor prior to our arrival.
Chairs for the multi-purpose room were purchased from the local surrounding community.
Through art therapy, we learned about the dangerous journey many of the unaccompanied minors took fleeing their home country before arriving at the camp.
Began the gardening project as well as a goat herding project for adult refugees.
We celebrated the completion of the multi-purpose room.
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2016:
WATW partnered with Macalester College to bring athletic equipment to the refugee camp. Macalester College generously donated volley balls, volleyball nets, soccer balls, soccer goal nets, cones, and t-shirts.
We introduced a leather project for young adults generate income.
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2017:
Continued growing projects to increase the number of refugees able to participate.
Agriculture and gardening, leather product making, coffee shops, hair dressing, sewing clothes, goat project, along with several other ways refugees are able to create sustainable livelihoods for themselves.
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