Refugees who arrive in Spokane face unparalleled challenges in every arena of life: mental, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. It takes most refugees many years to successfully work through all of their challenges, because when one is met, a new one usually arises. Global Neighborhood works to provide holistic care for refugees through relationship – for as long as it takes for them to become fully sustained. This holistic work comes in three forms: relief, development, and advocacy.

Relief work provides direct services and goods to refugees with immediate and pressing needs. Most of this work happens in the first one or two years of a refugee’s time in Spokane as they seek to establish themselves financially and have little access to sources of assistance.

Empowerment work focuses on giving refugees the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to become not only self-sustaining, but leaders who contribute to their communities and to the city.

Advocacy concentrates on giving a voice to refugees, who are often a voiceless population in the city. Through it, we promote systemic change on the behalf of those who are not able to fight for it themselves.

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