Emergency Housing for Released Asylum Seekers

Did you know that Northern NJ is home to 4 ICE detention centers, housing over 2,200 asylum seekers and immigrants?

For the lucky few that gain asylum, the path to safety and stability is more difficult than ever before.  Many of these asylum seekers get released from detention with no local family members to help them.  They have nowhere to sleep and will end up on the streets if we don't help them!  

We are raising money for First Friends of New Jersey & New York, an organization that provides visitation, advocacy and post-release services for asylum seekers detained in NJ.

This campaign will allow First Friends of New Jersey & New York to provide temporary housing to released asylum seekers so that they don't become homeless. 

In 2018 First Friends visited 348 asylum seekers in detention and provided over 120 released asylees with resettlement assistance such as housing, transportation, cash assistance, clothing and other services.

First Friends will use funds raised to: 

1. Pay for bed space offered by local nonprofit partners

2. Rent an apartment and pay for Airbnbs/hotel rooms when absolutely necessary.

Please visit our website at www.firstfriendsnjny.org.  

Any donation will make an impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to us.