Get Involved Helping Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Volunteer Opportunities to Help Refugees and Asylees

Volunteers include persons who have taken RIM's Spiritual Care Giver Training and who represent a broad spectrum of professional background: finance, social work, clergy and legal professions.

RIM is looking for volunteers to help in the following areas:

Fundraising
Events Committee
Cluster Work
ESL/Tutors
Board Members
Spiritual Care Givers

Be a RIM Volunteer - sign up via Volunteer Match.com!

Or fill out our Volunteer Application.

Magazine Fundraiser to Help Refugees and Asylees

We hope you will help support Refugee Immigration Ministry by ordering or renewing your favorite magazine subscriptions online and sharing our site with your friends and relatives. With your help, we are sure to earn the funds we need this year to assist RIM's clients.

Here's how you can help:

Our online fundraising store has over 650 of the most popular magazine titles at up to 85% off newsstands prices. Purchase or renew your favorite magazine subscriptions and 40% of your purchase will go directly to our cause!

Visit our online magazine store >>

Join the Green Team

Did you know that cell phones contain toxic materials such as arsenic, lead and zinc? According to a new study by environmental research group Inform, people in the U.S. will soon be getting rid of about 130 million cell phones each year. "That's about 65,000 tons of cell phones and ultimately they are thrown away, " says Joanna Underwood, spokesperson for Inform.

Within the next 20 years the global warming trend is expected to generate rising ocean levels which can force human migration of literally millions of people now living in low-lying poverty-driven countries around the world. This would be in addition to the thousands of persons already in refugee camps fleeing from international military or political conflicts or from ecological disasters as witnessed in Darfur.

For 23 years RIM has been dedicated to the assistance of displaced persons through offering them community support.

These factors cause RIM to take seriously the importance of creating a sustainable environment. A new program has now been initiated for recycling cell phones and ink cartridges which we will ship for you. Your donation will help provide aid for the clients RIM serves as well as helping clean up the environment.

Phones donated through our Phoneraiser program, however, are given new life. Your used phone is desirable to people living in developing nations. Phoneraiser makes your unused cell phones available to those who can use them, while keeping them out of the landfill.

Every phone or ink cartridge you donate will mean money for RIM Clients!

Bring/Mail your used cell phone or ink cartridges to the RIM:

Refugee Immigration Ministry
142 Pleasant Street, Suite 203
Malden, MA 02148