Providing Help for…
REFUGEES IN NEED
Our mission is to provide refugee families with education, help, and resources (food, clothing, furniture, household goods, etc.) that they so desperately need. We are passionate about providing a bright future for refugee children and believe a true education leads to that future. We use philanthropic donations to provide tuition for refugee children to attend private schools where they can obtain the individual attention they require.
Kelli, president of F.R.E.E., highlights the amazing success of the F.R.E.E. organization's outreach activities into the refugee community of Clarkston, Georgia.
About F.R.E.E.
F.R.E.E. collaborates with individuals, groups, and organizations, to arrange sponsors and conduct fundraisers. We serve refugee families primarily in the Clarkston and Stone Mountain Georgia areas. By 2018 our education sponsorship of students in the Seventh-Day Adventist Private School System had grown to a total of 92 students. We collect, transport, and distribute donations of food, clothing, household goods, furniture, toys, bicycles, appliances, diapers, etc… We also provide through the efforts of a volunteer staff (with diverse backgrounds and a wide array of skill sets) a broad array of services and assistance to the nearby refugee communities such as the transport of refugee children to/from school plus medical, dental, eye and legal appointments, etc. Additionally, each year we have provided shoes, a backpack, and school supplies to each of the refugee children whose education we sponsor. So appreciative of the opportunity made available to them, these students have excelled academically with many graduating as valedictorians of their class. Most rewarding to us is to see them graduate college and pursue careers such as missionary educator, dentist, pediatrician, etc.
Musings about our goals
Children are like leaves from a tree that tumble from their mother's arms into the stream of life. Floating on the fast-flowing stream, they never sit still. They bob and weave twist and turn as they dance upon the glittering ripples of water. Then all too soon, they move beyond sight as the stream of life carries them ever onward to times and places that sadly we as parents cannot travel with them. Therefore, prepare them well for the long journey ahead. Give them meals for the journey filled with staples from His Daily Bread to guide their way. Fill their pockets with things needed for the long journey ahead. Fill one pocket full of good examples, and fill the other with assigned daily chores so idle hands are not free to pick up bad habits and they have sufficient opportunity to develop good habits. Enjoy the few precious moments you have with them in His Majesty's grand cathedral of nature. Finally, write all ten of God's holy commandments on their hearts and seal them in their minds so that they are well prepared to travel safely to the final grand destination ahead.
Note: To visit our “Outreach / Distribution Center” see map on the “Contact Page” of our website. To contact us via mail, email or phone, see contact information below.
Friends of Refugees Providing Education and Empowerment (F.R.E.E.) is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) organization EIN #47-1667780.
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