Support RIT Education Drive 2025 for a new academic year. 📚📝 Our wishlist: bit.ly/rit-drive-2025. You can purchase items and drop them off at our San Francisco or Oakland locations or make pFor our Education Drive wishlist, please visit: bit.ly/rit-drive-2025. Or purchase them online and deliver them to RIT. (fb)

THE TIME IS NOW: DEFEND & BUILD! June is Immigrant Heritage Month in California. Help RIT raise $5,000 by June 30, to support our growing volunteer program! ❣️Click reftrans.org/give to donate today❣️ On the day the Trump Administration announced one of its many controversial decisions, we got a reminder that even in such dark times, there is power in community. RIT volunteer, Luana told us that our client R., whom she’d been tutoring for the U.S. Citizenship Test, passed the exam! R.’s family sought refuge from Afghanistan through a Special Immigrant Visa for wartime allies. They joined RIT to help build their future in the U.S. Both he and his wife S. learned English in RIT’s education program: R. in the workforce preparation class, and S. in the Women’s Initiative. S. is currently studying for her own citizenship test, also with Luana’s support. Through her volunteer work with RIT for the past 8 years, Luana has helped several other community members to achieve the stability of U.S. citizenship. Thank you, Luana and RIT’s 75 volunteers who tutor, mentor, and assist in RIT’s Education programs! 🚨Right now, we are called to both DEFEND and BUILD. 🧡 DEFEND immigrants by connecting them to legal services and offering Know Your Rights trainings, teaching that we ALL have rights. 💜BUILD shared communities through education and family support. The core of RIT programs for 40+ years, these services create safe, welcoming, and inclusive spaces where ALL belong. Our refugee and immigrant community members have gone through extraordinary journeys, and continue to face extraordinary challenges. RIT focuses on long-term impact that will resonate for the rest of people’s lives, clients and volunteers alike. RIT brings together clients from 40 countries yearly, along with volunteers and staff from many cultures. At this time of social isolation and division, building these diverse and welcoming spaces is more critical than ever. And supporters like you are an essential part of this. THANK YOU!💖 (fb)