The Islamic Society of Tulsa, Westside Alliance Soccer Club and Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma partnered together to bring a special day to refugee children from Afghanistan and their families.
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January 18, 2022
The final group of Afghan refugees coming to Green Country is in Tulsa. Volunteers with Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma welcomed them at the airport on February 18.
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January 12, 2022
Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma arranged for some Afghan refugees to attend a basketball game at Oral Roberts University.
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January 3, 2022
With the last of its 850-plus Afghan refugees due to arrive on Thursday, Tulsa’s part in a massive nationwide resettlement effort will officially wrap up its first phase.
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January 3, 2022
Last week, around 60 Afghan refugees flew into Tulsa International Airport. More are expected to arrive in Green Country this week, months after they were evacuated from Afghanistan in August.
Employees and roughly 800 volunteers with Catholic Charities are coordinating food, furniture, and other home goods into apartments for refugees. The youngest employee was 11-year-old Tristyn Cummings. Tristyn said it’s important to help.
“I love serving and helping people. I’ve been decorating and loading things into the trucks, that’s mostly what I’ve been doing,” said Tristyn.
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December 29, 2021
With more than 450 Afghan refugees already here and more on the way this week, teams of volunteers converged Monday at an east Tulsa apartment complex to prepare several units for refugees to occupy.
Kelly Cassidy, director of volunteer engagement for Catholic Charities, said 50 to 60 volunteers were on hand Monday at the complex, unloading moving trucks full of donated furniture and household items and helping set up the apartments.