URGENT NEED: WSU PULLMAN – REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUPPORT FUND
WSU has a strong legacy of helping disadvantaged students become successful through higher education. Continuing this tradition, WSU is proud to be selected by the Welcome Corps on Campus program to host a student forced from home and currently living in a refugee camp. Welcome Corps carefully matches students with a participating university. We offer wrap-around services, including peer mentors, to help the newcomer be successful and in turn, peer mentors get a deep intercultural experience without leaving their own campus. International students enhance our campus and bring a wealth of perspective invaluable to WSU, broadening the perspective of domestic students who interact with them.
International students bring new expertise, cultural exchange, and far-reaching friendship to WSU. Domestic students who rub shoulders with international students gain new ideas and interact with people from places they may otherwise never visit and take that outlook with them into the working world. The workforce is becoming more and more a global landscape and every student benefits from having cultural literacy and openness to new ideas.
Why Donate
You can help by donating to the WSU Pullman – Refugee and Immigrant Support Fund recently established with the help of leaders of several student organizations at WSU. To host a student, it is critical we have sufficient scholarship funding for their first year, after which they are eligible to work and apply for financial aid. We’ll need $17,000 in place by January to be matched with a student for Fall 2025. Developing a long-term refugee scholarship for future students starts today by gifting to this fund and meeting the goal. Student groups that started this fund intend to fund at least four full-time students over the next four years. A gift to this fund is a step toward expanding WSU’s mission.
Your gift will help create a life-changing experience for a young person who will also enrich our WSU community and help our students understand the world better.
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