The Michigan Refugee Outreach Organization  ensures that refugee families in the Metro-Detroit area don’t have to start over alone. Instead of offering a single moment of assistance, we stay with families for the long term—supporting them as a unit while they adjust, rebuild, and find their footing in a new country. We believe support shouldn’t end after the first step; families deserve consistency, care, and people who keep showing up. Our mission is to create stability and belonging through real relationships that help families feel safe, confident, and truly at home.

My passion for refugee outreach and community work stems from seeing that it took my family three years to support an Afghan refugee family to the point of true self-sufficiency. That experience taught me that meaningful help isn’t quick or one-time, and that families adjust best when they have consistent support and real relationships in their new community. I created the Michigan Refugee Outreach Organization to provide the kind of long-term, personal support I wished more families had access to, and it has been the most fulfilling part of my life for the past two years. Watching families grow and rebuild stability, leaving everything behind, is what fuels me to keep showing up and expanding this work for others who deserve the same chance to thrive.