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Sep 11
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Molina Healthcare Donates Bookbags, School Supplies to Help New American Students!

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From L to R: IIB’s Summer Cerbone, Molina’s Said Ahmed (a former IIB client), and Molina’s Kathrine Dukes-Weber. A special thank you to our friends at Molina Healthcare, who stopped by to donate backpacks filled with notebooks, folders, pens, pencils, water bottles, crayons, and other school supplies to help the New American students we serve. The backpacks also included various…
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Sep 09
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Recruting: In-Person Interpreters and Document Translators

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  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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Sep 06
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IIB Virtual Linguist Training: Intro to Legal Document Translation

By Events, I/T Service Update
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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Sep 04
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IIB Welcomes 39 New Americans from 18 Countries!

By In the Community, News
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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Aug 14
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UB's Social Impact Fellowship students that were hosted here at the IIB

UB Students Spend the Summer With IIB To Find Solutions

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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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Aug 13
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IIB Virtual Training: Intro to Community Interpreting

By I/T Service Update
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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Aug 11
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Celebrating Team USA: Immigrant Athletes’ Imprint on Olympic Games

By Education, History
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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Aug 09
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Olympic Refugee Team judoka, Muna Jahouk

Celebrating Immigrant Athletes’ Imprint on Olympic Games

By Education, Events, History, News
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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