A person escapes a home they can never return to and finds a home in the American Midwest and, with the help of kindly strangers guiding them, they forged a life. That is the story of Superman, but it is also one shared by countless non-fictional refugees, without the luxury of super powers. These refugees […]
A little old lady who needs someplace affordable to live. A refugee looks to have a better life in America but needs to learn and adapt to this new land. A child in foster care looks for his or her forever family or prays his or her parents can someday take them home. The season […]
We have all been stuck in our homes for months, but there are plenty of kids out who would love to be in that position. They are kids in need of adoption, and they don’t deserve to be forgotten just because of COVID-19 has everyone stressed out. At any given time, approximately 3,000 children in […]
No one is sure what the next school year is going to look like. What is less of a variable is kids will need supplies, and many young Detroiters can’t get them. Samaritas is working to fix that with its annual backpack drive. The organization is asking people to donate 1,400 backpacks and the school […]
“Send these, your homeless, and tempest-tost to me.” This verse written on the Statue of Liberty are words the Samaritas Refugee Foster Care lives by. As the largest refugee resettlement agency in Michigan and fourth largest in the nation, it has resettled thousands of people from dozens of countries, many of them children without parents. […]