Supporting and Helping Asylees and Refugees in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire
SHARe in the Welcome
SHARe provides a warm welcome to asylum seekers and refugees settling in the Upper Valley. We help newcomers with housing, jobs, education, English language learning, healthcare, legal support, physical and creative outlets, social involvement, and more, as they become increasingly self-sufficient here. We find creative ways to match resources to where they help the most.
Welcoming newcomers is a team effort, with dedicated volunteers and an ever-growing list of community supporters – organizations, businesses, and donors – involved as an individual or family becomes integrated into the community. We respect newcomers’ individuality, goals, and needs as they make a new home.
SHARe in the Experience
We invite you to contribute time, resources of all kinds, skills, connections, humor, faith, patience, or other special gifts in a way that brings you joy. Learn about volunteer opportunities and the many ways to contribute financially. If you are interested in learning more about how you can help, please reach out to us!
SHARe Your Voice
Help advocate on behalf of newcomers in our community, build connections, accelerate administrative processes, ensure access to services, and more to support physical, mental and social wellbeing. Together, we raise community awareness of the challenges faced by newcomers. Volunteers engage in public outreach activities, organize community events, and collaborate with local institutions and policymakers to promote refugee settlement and the right to seek asylum.
SHARe in the Community
SHARe is currently accompanying approximately 60 newcomers from Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Our work in community is more important now than ever. We maintain close contact with our state refugee settlement organizations, the VT-NH Asylum Support and NH Host Home Networks – a dozen nearby communities engaged in this same welcoming mission as communities – as well as national organizations guiding and sharing resources with communities across the country.
We are strengthening the infrastructure of SHARe as a volunteer-first, community-based organization. Contact us any time for more information.