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Overcomers Refugee Services
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EDUCATE | EMPOWER | ENGAGE
Overcomers Refugee Services is a resource center for New Hampshire refugees and immigrants, particularly those in the greater Concord area. Overcomers provides ongoing practical support, education and cultural orientation through people who understand both the refugees’ language and culture of origin.
Refugees are placed in New Hampshire communities with the help of the local state resettlement agencies, provides new arrivals with comprehensive assistance for three months. Three months support is not enough to learn how to get along in a new society. Most refugees arrive with no belongings, don’t speak the language, don’t understand the culture, and they have lived with dislocation, terrible loss and fear for years.
In addition to offering a broad and continuing array of basic support services, Overcomers works with the refugee community to facilitate conciliation and healing and to build comfort with their new culture. We support and advocate for refugees in crisis. We create connection between new arrivals and the New Hampshire receiving community.
Overcomers works toward successful integration and independence for its refugee clients.
New Americans have come from hardship, persecution, war and famine, but they are resilient. Overcomers’ goal is to empower them to become leaders in their community and cultural ambassadors to their receiving community