World Relief Atlanta: with less government funding
for refugees, agency will rely on church donations, by Ann
Corcoran 7/31/18.
So has Atlanta run out of poor Americans, homeless people and struggling veterans who need to be blessed? Are only refugees from the third world worthy of their Christian Evangelical blessing (with other people’s money!)?
What
a shock! What an outrage, as President Donald Trump reduces the number of
paying clients for the refugee contractors, this ‘religious’ charity declares it will have to
seek private donations from churches.
Last
I checked, World
Relief (full
name: World
Relief, National Association of Evangelicals) a private Christian non-profit group
was 73% funded by you, the taxpayer, to place refugees in your towns and
cities.
So how many will donate their private
money for their (religious) humanitarian good works?
When
the Refugee Act of
1980 became law,
it was understood that resettlement was a public-private partnership, but as the years have gone by the
contractors have gotten lazier and lazier about raising private money.
Poor managers, they must never have envisioned a day when some of their federal
money would dry up.
Now (gasp!) World Relief Atlanta says it will have to go to the
churches for their ‘religious’ charitable work. Imagine that!
From WABE:
Atlanta Resettlement Agencies Cut Staff As Refugee Arrivals Drop. - At World
Relief Atlanta, a resettlement agency in Stone Mountain, 21 of 30 employees
were laid off in the past year. It now has a staff of nine people. Fewer refugees coming in means reduced federal
funding to resettle them.
Joshua
Sieweke, director of World Relief Atlanta, said part of the problem is the
number of refugees the Trump administration declares it will accept — the
annual presidential determinations — has not been accurate.
“We were told to expect 450 [refugees], but now our best estimates are
around 100, and that means we will only receive money for 100,” Sieweke said.
In
2016, his group helped resettle about 600 refugees in the Atlanta area. He said World Relief will need to shift from
depending on federal funding to donations from local churches. “[Refugees] are suffering, and we need
to do what we can to eliminate that suffering and give them hope and a chance
to rebuild their lives,”
Sieweke
said. “As an American, I think it’s incredibly important because it represents
our country’s great history and tradition and the values that have made our
country so great. We have been blessed, and we have a great opportunity to then
be a blessing to others.”
More here at WABE—an NPR affiliate. It sure
looks like NPR is busily promoting the refugee industry from sea to shining
sea!
By
the way, see that in 2015, World Relief headquarters wrote to all
of its subcontractors telling them not to give out any information about their
upcoming plans for resettlement in your towns.
Here
is what they said: We’ve
heard recently from other members of RCUSA (Refugee Council USA) that
local affiliates have been contacted by individuals questioning the U.S.
refugee program. This is a result of an interview Ann Corcoran, a blogger
who runs Refugee Resettlement Watch, with a local news station in
Minnesota. She has told her followers to ask you for your R&P abstract
– please do not send it. And please let us know if you are contacted.
They
went on to tell their subcontractors to not visit Refugee Resettlement Watch, they would monitor my blog and pass
along anything important.
That kind of secrecy is what keeps me going! If they were a truly
private organization I would have no problem with their secrecy, but when they
use millions of taxpayer dollars for their ‘charitable’ work, then it becomes
our business!
I
post these as often as I can because new readers need to know that these
quasi-government groups are funded largely with your money, your tax dollars.
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of their income paid by you (the taxpayer) to place the
refugees in your towns and cities and get them signed up for their services (aka welfare)! If they were truly public-private
partnerships, they should be getting no more than 50% of their funds from the
US Treasury.
Truth
be told, they couldn’t raise enough private money because the general public
wouldn’t donate enough for their cause (importing poverty rather
than helping American poor people).
From
most recent accounting, here.
Ethiopian Community
Development Council (ECDC) (secular) (93%)
International Rescue
Committee (IRC) (secular)
(66.5%)
US Committee for
Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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