Join Us in Helping
​a Refugee Family

Dear Friends and Family,

Imagine that daily bombings of buildings in your neighborhood have made your home no longer safe for you and your children.  Imagine grabbing a small suitcase in one hand and your kids’ hands in the other, and closing your front door for the very last time.  Imagine walking with your family in the direction of what you believe to be the safest border, with no certainty about how your family will survive along the way or what will happen once you get there.  This is reality for tens of thousands of families right now, during the worst refugee crisis of our time.

It’s time to step up and do something.

We’re a bunch of parents in Evanston who like to Get Shit Done, and we’re ready to do just that.  

We’ve partnered with RefugeeOne, a resettlement agency in Chicago, to welcome a refugee family into our community and help them start a new life right here in our own neighborhood.    

Together with RefugeeOne, here’s what we’ll be able to do for one family fleeing war, terror and persecution:

  • Set up an apartment with furniture, household essentials, toiletries, and groceries.
  • Welcome the family at O’Hare and provide a hot meal upon their arrival.
  • Meet weekly for the first six months to provide encouragement, language training and job search assistance, tutoring for school-aged children, and help adjusting to a new city and culture.

In order to make this happen, we need to raise $8,500 to provide rent and expenses in the first six months of their lives here. 

Can you help us?  Any donation, large or small, will put us one step closer to bringing our new friends home. 
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Give what you can and—if you are able—let your friends know about us. We need only 425 donations of $20 or just 170 donations of $50.
 
From all of us at Get Shit Done, 
Thank you for your support!
getshitdone.live@gmail.com

Make a Donation
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Click the link below to donate in support of the Get Shit Done project.  RefugeeOne is a 501c3 organization.  All contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.  Tax ID number 363817743
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Facts About Refugees

A refugee is someone who is forced to flee or leave their country due to persecution, conflict, or war.

There are more than 21 million refugees in the world!

The U.S. is expected to take 110,000 refugees this year.

RefugeeOne is expected to resettle more than 900 refugees this year.  

Refugees come from many countries around the world such as Burma, Iraq, Bhutan, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Ethiopia,  and Afghanistan.
Thanks for your Support!
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www.refugeeone.org/GSD