Joel Nafuma Refugee Center: Meeting the Needs and Aspirations of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Rome, Italy

Joel Nafuma Refugee Center

Roma , RM , Italy

The JNRC is the only day center operating in Rome, Italy, offering supplies for homeless refugees and asylum seekers. We serve around 50-80 people per day from our Supply Room, offering free personal items for human dignity to the homeless and destitute. A nice second-hand jacket or a decent pair of shoes for those with blisters from wearing shoes the wrong size/ flip-flops can make a huge difference to morale and self confidence, especially for our younger guests. Sleeping bags are literally life-saving!

Our CURRENT, urgent needs: MEN's trainers, lightweight sleeping bags. We always need help with general operating costs too as we do not receive any Government support at all.

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  • Still Collecting Sleeping Bags!

    Dear Donor,  Last week we received 25 lovely sleeping bags worth $20 each, just in time for 25 lucky refugees who sleep outside on the pavements by Rome train stations and in parks every night.  For the rest, they are still waiting anxiously, and so cold they are unable to sleep at night, so please, donate today. For more on our center, please visit us at www.jnrc.it or find us on…

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  • Thank you, Everyone!

    Joel Nafuma Refugee Center is the only drop-in Center, and community for homeless and hostel-housed refugees and asylum seekers in Rome. We open every day and offer a warm breakfast, a hot cup of tea, and access to supplies for human dignity and survival. We are a very "no-frills" type of organization, almost entirely run by volunteers, and without any Government funding or institutional…

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  • First batch of 50 sleeping bags arrived for the Winter Campaign 2018

    Thank you to all the donors who contributed to the first batch of sleeping bags. They arrived last weekend and all this week we have been handing them out to desperate, freezing people. Rome is now 3 C at night, pretty cold to be on the streets with nothing but a piece of cardboard to lie on and the clothes you are wearing. Please give, because we have seen that the Government is evicting…

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