$4500 for support services for three siblings, ages 11 to 12, whose father, a whistleblower for worker and consumer safety, was laid off and harassed, then arrested and attacked by police. Despite multiple surgeries, he is incapacitated and partially paralyzed.
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$2000 for summer camp and educational support for two kids, ages nine and 13, whose father participated in a hunger strike at a detention center to protest detention and unsafe conditions. He was threatened with deportation, told he would not be eligible for release and taunted by prison guards.
$7675 for a broad range of programs for six beneficiaries, ages six to 24, whose parents, all immigrants rights activists, faced threats from ICE while they advocated for more just immigration policies from sanctuary.
$3000 for driving lessons, school supplies and recreational activities for two siblings, ages 15 and 18, whose father was detained and deported by ICE, despite his pending case, in an apparent act of retaliation for his years of leadership within the immigrants’ rights movement.
$3500 for school tuition and a computer for two siblings, ages 16 and 18, whose mother is an immigrants’ rights activist. As a result of her organizing, her asylum case was delayed for 12 years, this caused her family great financial stress and led them to become unhoused for more than four years.
$4500 for educational supplies for three children, ages 11 to 16, whose mother lost her job and faced threats for exposing flagrant disregard for health and safety as well as appalling medical malfeasance at her work.
$800 for summer camp for the 17-year-old daughter whose mother organized against government corruption in her home nation. She came to the U.S. after the military harassed and assaulted her.
$3000 for school tuition for two children, ages 10 and 15, whose dad established an interfaith mosque to counteract society’s negative bias towards Muslims post-9/11. He faced harassment and detention by the FBI and local law enforcement and chose to leave the U.S. to end the persecution.
$3000 for tutoring and recreational activities for the two siblings, ages seven and eight, whose mom was repeatedly stalked and threatened for her efforts to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day.
$6600 for extracurricular activities, summer camp and a CIF award for five children, ages five to 23, from three families whose parents, human rights activists, were forced to leave their home country after they faced threats and their comrades were killed or imprisoned.