Are you interested in helping immigrants and refugees converse in their native language? The International Institute of Buffalo is looking for interpreters and translators with excellent written and verbal foreign language skills to provide meaningful and necessary support to our new community members. Our interpreters and translators play an essential role in assisting our newly arrived American clients navigate…
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Intro to Legal Document Translation Click here to register Dates: Monday, September 30 Time: two-hour virtual workshop 4:00-6:00 p.m. General admission with certificate: $35 General Admission without certificate: $25 If you are able, please offer a donation of any amount you'd like to help cover the operating costs of our diverse departmental offerings, or even perhaps for an interpreter who…
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Update: We are no longer holding open donation hours on site. To coordinate your drop offs please contact our donations team at: donations@iibuff.org In September, we expect to resettle multiple refugee families, as well as several smaller cases. Many of our refugee clients have spent years, if not decades in United Nations refugee camps abroad, waiting for a place to…
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We were honored to welcome 39 New Americans from 18 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this week. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Canada, Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Somalia, United Kingdom, and Yemen.…
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From left: Ajit Pawar, Nicholas Bush, and Abbey Szarowicz (Photo Credit: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki) by Claire Hackbush This summer, the University at Buffalo's Social Impact Fellows program selected the International Institute of Buffalo as one of just eleven regional non-profit organizations to host students so they could use their multidisciplinary backgrounds to address pressing social issues in the community. For…
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Fig Tree Pâtisserie wants to help our newest neighbors settle in Western New York. The custom bakery, known for specialty bakery items, is sweetening the deal! As an incentive through the month of August, Fig Tree is offering up to $5 worth of sweet treats to folks who donate basic household items. These donations will go a long way toward…
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Intro to Community Interpreting Join us for a virtual 8-hour course covering the most basic foundational principles of community interpreting. Open to interpreters of all levels, Introduction to Community Interpreting is a training session meant for beginners in the field of interpreting but also serves as a great refresher course for already seasoned professionals who like to keep their foundational…
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In the spirit of the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris, we’re continuing to spotlight world-class immigrant athletes who are currently or have competed for the U.S. National Team. Today, we spotlight Olympic Champion and "father of surfing," Duke Kahanamoku. Duke Kahanamoku, born in 1890 in Hawaii, was a true product of his heritage. A native Hawaiian of Polynesian descent, he was a direct…
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As the 2024 Olympics games in Paris, France, continue, we're spotlighting world-class immigrant and refugee athletes who are competing or have competed. Today, we'll spotlight Muna Dahouk, a judoka (a practitioner of judo) representing the IOC Refugee Team this summer. Born August 27, 1995, in Damascus, Syria, a young Muna Dahouk (pictured above in white) began practicing judo at the…
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With the stunning opening ceremony now complete at the 2024 Olympics games in Paris, France, we’re continuing to spotlight world-class immigrant athletes who are or have competed for the U.S. National Team. Today, we recognize U.S. long-distance runner Abdi Abdirahman, who became the oldest runner to make the U.S. Olympic team in 2020. Born on January 1, 1977, in Mogadishu,…
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