When Lwe Paw traveled from a refugee camp in Thailand to Iowa in 2012, she knew the path ahead would be rocky. Arriving in a foreign land as a senior,...
Pictures of Kahamu Rashidi's children hang on Dan Bean's fridge next to snapshots of his grandchildren. It symbolizes a father-son bond formed during a chance meeting in an African refugee...
“Thinking back to where I was a few years ago, barely able to pay my bills, compared to where I am now, I feel blessed,” said Teta, a client of...
Zac Couture is celebrating 10 years with Lutheran Services in Iowa’s Immigrant and Refugee Community Services! He started volunteering with LSI to teach English to immigrants and refugees before helping...
After fleeing the Congolese Civil War, LSI resettled the Kaamu family in Marshalltown thanks to a local man and family friend. Pictures of Rashidi and Salima Kaamu's children hang on...
by Grace Johnson, LSI Communications Coordinator At LSI, there are countless opportunities to volunteer and always more to learn about the work our 550+ team members do across the state....
Vinh is one of just eight individuals from across the country to be selected to this board whose role is to advise US refugee policies. In addition to engaging with...
LSI’s Global Greens agriculture program is celebrating 10 years of empowering former refugee and immigrant farmers in central Iowa. The program, provided through LSI Refugee and Immigrant Services, reconnects farmers...
Over the last year, we have learned that we are stronger together. Our communities were resilient in the face of every hardship. And our human services workforce across the state...
Earlier this summer, LSI hosted a ribbon cutting for a new 12-acre urban agriculture farm in Pleasant Hill, just east of Des Moines. The land was donated by Phyllis Childers....
