Something Has To Be Done
Immigration is a complex issue. The Madison Choral Project encourages you to do something:
learn more, donate, or volunteer. Regardless of one's political views on migration and immigration, our music inspires us to unite to help meet the basic needs of people who are caught in between at the border.
Choose a button below for some options.
Learn more about issues at the Southern U.S. border
READ
More about Lori Baker and Reuniting Families
images and descriptions of her work
-Recommended by Jen Streit
Responding to Migrant Deaths Along the Southwest Border by Elizabeth Miller, Police Executive Research ForumNew Paragraph
DONATE
WORKING TOGETHER
Basic Needs at the Border
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provides hospitality and accompaniment for refugees in New Mexico, El Paso, TX, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México as well as education through Border Immersion Trips
- Recommended by Rev. Nick Utphall
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distributes Dignity Kits to refugees in El Paso & Juárez
- Recommended by Rev. Nick Utphall
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humanitarian aid project committed to offering hospitality, housing, food, clothing, toiletries, advocacy, and travel assistance to asylum-seekers in Tucson, Arizona
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children’s centers for unaccompanied minor migrants to take back their lives
- Recommended by Rev. Stephen Heimer
Resettlement in Wisconsin.
Dane Sanctuary Coalition provides physical sanctuary to our immigrant friends and neighbors who are at risk for deportation. We also provide a conduit for information, education, and trainings on related social justice actions.
- Recommended by Rev. Nick Utphall &
Rabbi Bonnie Margulis
Community Action for Recent Arrivals
CARA Waunakee receives donations of homegoods, furniture, time, and money
- Recommended by Rachel Edie Warrick
JSS of Madison a variety of services and resources to help refugees become self-sufficient and create a safe and stable life in the Dane County area
Hanan Refugees Relief Group provides short and long-term solutions, such as housing, labor opportunities, and medical relief to transition refugees into contributing members of their host communities
- Recommended by Saira Frank
Community Immigration Law Center the success rate for those applying for asylum with legal help is exponentially greater than those without
- Recommended by Rabbi Bonnie Margulis
COMING TOGETHER
Family Reunification
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The primary nonprofit organization representing parents who were separated from their children and deported without them. Al Otro Lado monitors continued family separations at the US-Mexico border and engages media, researchers, elected officials, litigators, and other advocates to bring continued family separations to the public eye and advocate for policy changes that would end separation at the border.
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Organizations that provide free legal services to immigrant and refugee children
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Creates immersive “virtual reunions” between undocumented immigrants and their families abroad
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Founded by Glennon Doyle & Abby Waumbach
DO
Lend a hand
with Open Doors for Refugees (Madison)
Help with intake
Connect
with Voces de la Frontera and get on their mailing list for statewide actions and to connect with the Madison group.
Follow
Dane Sanctuary Coalition on Facebook.
Go on a trip
Go on a border immersion learning trip with Border Servant Corps.
Host
- a film screening & discussion
- a book club
ADVOCACY
For refugees at the local, state, national, and international levels (from Open Doors for Refugees).
- Office of Refugee Resettlement: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr
- Refugee Admissions Program: https://www.state.gov/refugee-admissions/
- UN Refugee Agency: http://www.unhcr.org/en-us
- Welcoming Refugees: http://www.welcomingrefugees.org/
- Refugees International: https://www.refugeesinternational.org/
Advocacy and Communications Committee
Short-term home hospitality
If you might be interested hosting an asylum-seeker on a temporary basis by sharing an empty bedroom, an in-laws apartment, or other accommodations as they get settled in the community, fill out this spreadsheet with your information
Drivers
Provide rides to undocumented immigrants and asylum-seekers who need to get to Milwaukee for ICE check-ins or to Chicago for immigration hearings. Some local rides are sometimes requested as well. Signing up for the list does not obligate anyone to accept any specific requests.
--Daniel Zimmerman zimmerman_dan@hotmail.com
If you only have 5 minutes...
Watch
We the People Ride Documentary - Six Days in the Desert
-one man’s experience at a shelter in Sasabe, Mexico that provides relief to migrants
Donate
to an organization from our Donate section
-choose from Basic Needs at the Border, Resettlement in Wisconsin, or Family Reunification