{"id":7420,"date":"2022-01-14T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uutuscaloosa.org\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:39:16","slug":"help-an-afghan-refugee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uutuscaloosa.org\/wp-prod\/help-an-afghan-refugee\/","title":{"rendered":"Help an Afghan Refugee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is some interest in our congregation with helping in refugee resettlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is an interfaith group that grew out of the Birmingham UU church. They are working with both Afghan and other international refugees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They have a Facebook group (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ALirp.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ALirp.org<\/a>) and a<br \/>\nwebpage (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alirp.org\/\">https:\/\/www.alirp.org\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From the Facebook page, it says they are welcoming over 50 Afghan<br \/>\nfamilies to the area and need some logistical and material support.<br \/>\nThere is an Amazon Wishlist from which you can order needed items.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The shipping address is already set up to go to the group. Here is a link to<br \/>\nthat list that goes through Amazon Smile (we are a recipient of the<br \/>\namazon donation for items purchased through here)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/S7670GRRLAQN?ref_=wl_fv_le\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/S7670GRRLAQN?ref_=wl_fv_le<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you haven&#8217;t set up Amazon Smile to use us (UUCT) as the recipient and<br \/>\nwould like to, you can do that from this link. Also, if you don&#8217;t want<br \/>\nto go through Smile, just adjust the URL shown here to take the word<br \/>\n&#8220;smile&#8221; out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is some interest in our congregation with helping in refugee resettlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is an interfaith group that grew out of the Birmingham UU church. They are working with both Afghan and other international refugees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They have a Facebook group (<a <a href=\"https:\/\/uutuscaloosa.org\/wp-prod\/help-an-afghan-refugee\/\"><strong>&#8230; read more<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Help an Afghan Refugee - UUTuscaloosa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uutuscaloosa.org\/wp-prod\/help-an-afghan-refugee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Help an Afghan Refugee - UUTuscaloosa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is some interest in our congregation with helping in refugee resettlement. 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