From Left to Right: Volunteer Megan Gerrity, IIB's Steve Bosco, IIB's Dawn Obe Being a good neighbor starts with a Welcome! Recently, community members came to the International Institute of Buffalo campus to paint "Welcome" signs in the languages of the New Americans we are currently resettling. The works of art will now proudly hang in newly-arrived refugee families' homes.…
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In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize the scientific, economic, cultural, political, and social contributions of influential immigrants and refugees who’ve helped shape the vibrant tapestry of America. Today, we focus on Cuban-American actor Andrés Arturo García Menéndez, professionally known as Andy García. Andy García was born on April 12, 1956, in Havana, Cuba, just two years before…
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IIB would not be able to make WNY a better place for, and because of, immigrants and refugees were it not for the great people on our team and in the community.
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We were honored to welcome 27 New Americans from 17 countries while they took their citizenship oaths at the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony in downtown Buffalo this week. The special ceremony took place at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site. Here are the countries from which these new American citizens traveled: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burma, Canada,…
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Photo Credit: UNCR The Refugee Paralympic Team made history recently, winning its first-ever medals at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. They wrapped up this past weekend following ten days of intense competition. Competing in six sporting events, the dynamic refugee team included eight athletes and one guide runner. The team won bronze medals in the women's Para Taekwondo event…
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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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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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