Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Volunteers are an important part of successful refugee resettlement. As teachers, facilitators, and advocates, volunteers help newly arrived refugees navigate their new culture. When these relationships develop into long term friendships, volunteers offer both the motivation and the means for new Americans to become full members of American society. VRRP works in a partnership with volunteers to enrich the lives of our clients. Working together, we combine your life experience, creativity, and flexibility with our professional experience, training, and resources. When we add to this a strong desire from our clients to learn about and be successful in their new community, we have the elements that promote long term success.

Description:
The Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program brings hope and opportunity to the lives of refugees and immigrants. We act to defend human rights, promote self-sufficiency and education and to forge community partnerships through a full range of programs & services.

VRRP, founded in 1980, provides comprehensive services to newly arrived refugees through a variety of direct and collaborative social service programs. In other words, VRRP helps refugees adapt to life in the United States. VRRP is a field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), a national voluntary agency that contracts with the U.S. State Department to resettle refugees. USCRI provides the administrative process through which refugees arrive in Vermont. When a refugee arrives at the airport, VRRP's work begins.

Contact person: Marcia Stone, Coordinator Of Volunteer Services, (802) 338-4627, (email)
Office fax number: (802) 655-4020

Address:

462 Hegeman Ave., Suite 101 Colchester, VT 05446 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.vrrp.org

Miscellaneous Information

1. What target populations does your agency serve?
	Refugees and immigrants
3. How many paid staff (FTE) do you have?
	17
4. Please indicate your organization type:
	Independent 501 (c)3
Volunteers for this agency can serve in these county(s):
	Chittenden County

Overall Experience   
volunteering is a way to give back all that I have been given

posted on October 11, 2006