<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif">Back to Square One.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;text-align:right"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;text-align:right"><font face="georgia, serif">December 15, 2015</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif">To: Community
steering committee assigned with inquiring about opening a new site for refugee
resettlement in Pullman, WA</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif">From:
World Relief</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif">Thank you
for your interest in partnering with World Relief Spokane to propose Pullman,
WA as a future refugee resettlement site.
World Relief has considered your request and come to the following
conclusions.</font></span></p>
<p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="georgia, serif">·<span style="font-stretch:normal">
</span>Pullman has no existing refugee community.
Thus, all refugees placed in your city would need to be cases with no U.S. tie.
Such cases comprise only 25-35% of the refugees entering the U.S., and are
highly sought by existing offices who need them to supplement their programs.</font></p>
<p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="georgia, serif">·<span style="font-stretch:normal">
</span>All new resettlement sites must be approved by
the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).
Among other criteria, PRM tends to prioritize new site opportunities in
metropolitan areas with an existing refugee community.</font></p>
<p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="georgia, serif">·<span style="font-stretch:normal">
</span>World Relief already has a field office in
eastern Washington, Spokane that is not yet at capacity.</font></p>
<p class="" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="georgia, serif">·<span style="font-stretch:normal">
</span>World Relief has an organizational goal of
launching 1-3 new field offices each fiscal year. Across the nation, the number
of new site opportunities from interested communities already exceeds World
Relief’s capacity to expand. Thus we are
not accepting additional site requests at this time.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="line-height:115%">Thank you
again for your interest, but we will have to decline your offer to open a World
Relief office in Pullman, WA. If your
community is truly interested in serving refugees, perhaps the best opportunity
may be in reaching out to refugees being served by World Relief in the Middle
East or Europe. Please contact Mark
Lamb, our Church Partnership Director for the Northwest at</span> <span style="line-height:115%"><a href="mailto:mlamb@wr.org">mlamb@wr.org</a></span>.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif">Sincerely,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="georgia, serif">World Relief </font></p></div><font face="georgia, serif">-- <br></font><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div style="height:auto;width:auto"> <div> <div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><div><font face="georgia, serif">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. <br><br>-Greek proverb</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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