Your Giving: Supports migrant youth and ending homelessness

Helping migrant youth through the U.S. immigration system and ending homelessness in D.C. through Western's mission giving:

• Alarmed by the increasing number of youth arriving in the U.S, nearly 70,000 migrant children held in custody in 2019, the Mission Team provided Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) a $2000 grant.  KIND is a national organization that has five program goal: 
  1. provide legal service to unaccompanied youth in deportation proceedings;
  2. help children and families deal with implications of Family Separation policy;
  3. help ensure that unaccompanied children receive fair and appropriate treatment while in the U.S. immigration system;
  4. work to protect children’s right and safety, during and after migration;
  5. help migrant children adjust to a new country, new language, new homes and address the traumas they experience. 

• The Mission Team provided Miriam’s Kitchen with a $2500 gift in 2019.  The gift was given to support MK’s exemplary work in ending homelessness by:
  1. serving more than 75,000 healthy, fresh meals a year;
  2. connecting 5000 homeless individuals to critical social services;
  3. helping secure funding from DC Government to help 1260 individuals and 560 families;
  4. providing supportive services to 176 formerly homeless individuals living in Permanent Supportive Housing; and
  5. reducing food costs to less than .50 cents per meal.