Now more than ever your help is needed.
As we enter the holiday season and think about spending time with our families, we also reflect on those who cannot be with theirs and how we can help.
Poverty, violence, famine and war are driving an unprecedented number of immigrants across the borders of the European Union and the United States in search of a safe haven from the turmoil in their native countries. Some have been favored with warm receptions and acts of kindness. Others have been detained and deported. Much like in the 1920s when the ISS Federation was created, ISS-USA today works to improve conditions in the home country to prevent emigration, and provide services that are critical to reunite families and keep them safe.
This Thanksgiving, and throughout the holiday season, we ask you for a contribution so we may continue our vital work. Gifts from donors like you have helped sustain us for more than 90 years. In that time, the number of people who desperately turn to ISS-USA for help has grown.
Your generous gift can help connect an abducted child or a child in foster care to his or her family abroad, ensure that a potential home is safe for a child who is being adopted or returning home, or enable siblings to meet for the first time after having lived their entire lives apart.
How Your Gift Has an Impact on Children & Families:
- $10/month can train 10 social workers nationwide to find permanent homes for foster children who have family overseas who are able to take care of them
- $20/month can alert protective services for 12 children in imminent danger of abuse or neglect
- $40/month can ensure that judges who make decisions on behalf of separated children have access to the information they need
- $125/month can help an adult adoptee find and establish a relationship with his or her biological relatives on another continent
This season,
please give to ISS-USA.
- You can donate electronically by clicking the "donate now" button, by sending us a check made out to International Social Service, USA Branch Inc.,
- Or by making a gift in memory or in honor of someone.
- You can also introduce our organization to others who may also share your passion for ensuring that children, families and adults separated by international borders have access to the services and support they need.
Thank you in advance for your gift to ISS-USA, a gift that will help make the world a safer, better place for those who find themselves abandoned or away from home this holiday season.
Best wishes,
Julie
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