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No. 227
March/April 2002

Contents
  Welcome!
• The first edition of FYI online!
From the President’s Desk
• The Tide is Turning (But There Are
Still Empty Seats on the Lifeboat!)
• More Indirect Victims of September
11—Haitian Asylum Seekers in
Detention
Washington Update
• Wisconsin on the Move for Child
Protection
Focus on Partners
• Detained Torture Survivor Legal
Support Network
• Lutheran Social Services of
South Dakota
Advocacy
• Making Our Voices Heard
Resources
• RefugeeWorks Publishes Youth
Employment Manual
LIRS in the News
Staff News
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Vice President for
Agency Advancement
Timmi Pierce

Director for Communications
Susan Baukhages

Editor/Designer
Valerie Anne Bost

We welcome feedback on this
publication. To submit comments,
compliments or corrections, or to
subscribe to the FYI e-mail reminder
list, click here to e-mail, or write to

FYI Editor
LIRS
700 Light Street
Baltimore MD 21230

Unless otherwise noted, the articles
in FYI are not copyrighted and may
be reprinted with the following
statement: “Reprinted courtesy of
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee
Service.”
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Mission

In response to God’s love in Christ,
we welcome the stranger,
bringing new hope and new life
through ministries of service
and justice.

 

 
for your input, insight, innovation, inspiration, information
A bimonthly publication of the Agency Advancement Department of
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
 
If you are having trouble viewing the newsletter, click here.

Welcome
to the first edition of FYI online!

As mentioned in the February issue, to conserve financial and staff resources LIRS has decided to produce FYI in an online format. Use the links under "Contents" on the left side of this page to navigate among the articles in this issue. Most features will be familiar to regular readers. "Focus on Partners" will now consist of two-three shorter articles per issue rather than one longer, in-depth piece. "Resources" is a new feature we hope will allow us and our partners to share news about available print, video and online resources. Unfortunately, our plans to continue "Out and About," which reported staff travel, were not tenable, so that feature has been dropped.

We welcome your feedback on the design or content of this or any issue of FYI. Send your comments to fyi@lirs.org. Use that address also to subscribe to the e-mail list for regular reminders of new issues of FYI.

Please note: FYI online utilizes programming code that older web browsers may not be able to read.

For best results in viewing these pages (and the rest of the Internet!), I recommend version 4.0 or higher of Internet Explorer. I've worked out most of the problems with version 4 of Netscape, but there are still a few quirks.

If you have anything older than version 4 of either browser, you will not be able to view these pages properly. Even older hardware should support version 4, though they may not support newer versions.

Click here for more information about downloading Netscape Communicator 4.79. (I was unable to find Internet Explorer 4 on Microsoft's website. If anyone knows if that is available for download, please e-mail me.)

If you are unsure what version you have, click on the "Help" menu, and then click on "About [Name of Your Browser]" (see image below).

My apologies to those who have had trouble viewing the newsletter. I am learning as I go along and will do my best to make FYI as accessible as possible for as many readers as possible. Please continue to e-mail me with any problems. Thank you for your patience.

~Editor
March 6, 2002, 12:26 a.m.

 

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