About Refugee Children
Since its inception in 1980, the LSS Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program has cared for more than 240 refugee children from Southeast Asia, Central America, Africa, Haiti and Cuba.
Foster families, often of the child's own ethnic background, have joined in partnership with the multi-cultural staff to provide the care and support necessary for these young people to become self-sufficient adults in their new country.
In 2000 and 2001, LSS resettled 40 of the "lost children of Sudan" in the greater Boston area. Lutheran Social Services employs staff whose sole focus is the cultivation of sponsors and volunteers to help refugees cope successfully with the enormous needs and challenges they face when they first arrive in their new homeland. |