Help Immigrants and Asylum Seekers

First Friends of NJ works with detainees and asylum seekers in NJ to bring them hope and dignity. They provide detention center immigrants with services and provisions and seek housing for those released into the community.

Many immigrants are detained indefinitely for months and years with no contact with lived ones or the outside world. When possible financially, First Friends provides these detainees with phone cards to reach their relatives either those they've been separated from here or in the countries they've arrived from.

I'm working directly with First Friends to provide each of the 175 immigrants they work with in New Jersey with a phone card.
Each card is $15. The cards are good for several calls to their families , These immigrants languish in these detention centers with nothing to do all day, they are depressed and hopeless and a call to loved ones - uniting with their family - is a ray of light in their bleak situation.