|| LIRS || FYI -- No. 228 -- 2002 Asylum and Immigration Grants

Return to LIRS homepage

No. 228
May/June 2002

Contents

From the President’s Desk
Washington Update
Focus on Partners
From the Field
Asylum & Immigration Grants
Ambassadors Circle
Resources
LIRS in the News
Staff News
Summer Exhibit Schedule
UNHCR Nansen Award
___________

Click here for a no-frills, text-only
MS Word version of this issue.

Click here to visit the FYI archives.
___________

FYI Editor
LIRS
700 Light Street
Baltimore MD 21230

for your input, insight, innovation, inspiration, information
A bimonthly publication of the Agency Advancement Department of
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

Grants
2002 Asylum and Immigration Grants Go to 29 Organizations
By Joyce Hoebing, LIRS Director for Community Programs

LIRS is pleased to announce the 2002 Asylum and Immigration grant awards. Asylum and Immigration grants support community-based programs that are serving and advocating for vulnerable immigrants such as those detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), asylum seekers, children, and victims of torture.

This year grants were made to 29 organizations, of which 27 provide legal services, including 15 that have a main focus on INS detainees. Seven legal service programs at LIRS resettlement affiliates were funded. The grants, which are made jointly with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, totaled $271,000.

Last year's grantees…

provided 995 legal orientation presentations to INS detainees, reaching approximately 18,400 adults and 1,900 children;
opened case files on 3,402 INS detainees and 9,595 nondetained immigrants;
served 1,008 children, including 628 who were detained by the INS;
served 694 survivors or torture, of whom 139 were in INS detention; and
provided services to asylum seekers and other vulnerable immigrants from 94 different countries.

This year's grantees are as follows, in order by state under each category:

Detention Projects

Arizona