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4 people are interested
Are you a Website Wizard? Volunteer to help us reach more individuals in the Seattle community!
ORGANIZATION: Horn of Africa Services
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4 people are interested
Horn of Africa Services (HOAS) has been providing services to individuals and families from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and neighboring countries in the Southeast Seattle community for over fifteen years. Our website is sadly about as old as our organization, so we need help updating it! We are seeking a volunteer to assist us in updating our website and migrating it to our new Wordpress platform. If you have skills in designing, migrating, and managing a Wordpress site, you would be an ideal candidate. All the content and format of the website would be created by our staff, so as a volunteer, we would need your expertise in the technical based work of re-routing from our old web host to our Wordpress site.
Updating our website is crucial to our ongoing success, now more so than ever. HOAS has recently been impacted by a dramatic decrease in federal funding and grants for immigrant and refugee organizations. Therefore we are in the process of ramping up our fundraising efforts. And, no fundraising efforts can be successful unless we have a website that reflects some of the amazing work we are doing in the community. By assisting us in website and tech help, you would be crucial to the broadcasting of our organization to, not only funders, but more families and individuals needing our services. There are more and more individuals and families coming from Horn of Africa countries to the Seattle area daily, and we are hoping to be a stable and reliant source of support and encouragement for them! Join us in helping to reach out to this community and make our online presence reflect our organizations programs!
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About Horn of Africa Services
Location:
4714 Rainier Avenue South, Suite 105, Seattle, WA 98118, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to serve low-income refugees and immigrants from all East African countries by providing opportunities for them to develop the social, linguistic and vocational skills they need in order to be socially integrated and economically self-sufficient.
Description
Horn of Africa Services (HOAS) is a multi-lingual, multi-cultural nonprofit offering support and advocacy services in response to health, employment, housing educational and social needs for East African refugees and immigrants from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan living in the greater Seattle area.
HOAS has been recognized throughout the Puget Sound as a leading social services provider to East Africans. HOAS has a multi-national board and staff composed mostly of East Africans who have experienced the hardships that our clients have been exposed to.
Founded in 1992 by a group of volunteers, HOAS continues to provide assistance to East African immigrants and refugees, regardless of their religious, ethnic or political affiliations. HOAS helps to empower clients to navigate more efficiently through their lives by creating an atmosphere of supportive interaction, learning and by providing information and guidance on accessing social and related services. HOAS strives to ensure our East African clients that their relocation to the Seattle area becomes trouble-free.
Basic Computer Training: technology-based educational resource center located in southeast Seattle to provide East African refugees and immigrants with a safe, culturally sensitive environment where they can access a computer lab and learn about computers with the assistance of multi-lingual staff and volunteers.
After School Program - Tutoring: our After School Program serves East African refugee and immigrant youth from grades 3-12 and provides homework help, and math instruction in a supportive and fun environment. We support children in their school work, improving their grades in school and in preparing for WASL examinations. we offer homework help and math education to East African refugee and immigrant youth at two Seattle Housing Authority low-income housing sites. Students are matched with a tutor for homework help and math focused tutoring to improve school performance and WASL test scores.
Parent Advocates and Cultural Orientation: through experience and needs based research, we developed the Parent Advocate program to develop parent knowledge of the schools, and provide substantive information parents need in order to understand the US school system and support their children in succeeding academically.
We are now expanding this program, beyond training parent advocates, to include a parents forum to engage more parents on a regular basis. The second half of the program is the cultural awareness trainings for educators working with East African youth. With this we will inform and empower people on both sides of the student - the educators and the families.
Information Referral and Case Management: assist East African refugees to access social services through multi-lingual and culturally appropriate information, advocacy and referrals to local resources. The ultimate goal is to provide services and learning opportunities to assist individuals to become more self-reliant and more toward self-sufficiency.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
4714 Rainier Avenue SouthSuite 105Seattle, WA 98118
DATE POSTED
August 20, 2014
SKILLS
- Web Design
- Website Project Management
- Website Programming
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check