Founded in 2016, Refugee Assistance Morris Partners (RAMP) seeks to assist vetted Middle Eastern and other refugee families to transition to productive lives of dignity, safety, and hope in the Morris County area. A coalition of 23 faith-based Morris County area organizations including St. Peter’s, a founding member, work together to act in the ongoing refugee crisis. Individual members include Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
RAMP provides a full range of core support services and financial assistance to aid our families, all legal immigrants. These services include finding employment opportunities; identifying appropriate social services; educational assistance; transportation; and medical care. Services also include raising, managing, and judiciously distributing funds, and finding and furnishing suitable living arrangements. The objective is gradual independence for each of the resettled families.
As of summer 2020, RAMP has assisted five families and one individual, a total of 21 people including several small children, some of whom were born in the United States. Thanks to the generosity of members including parishioners at St. Peter’s, RAMP has been able to support our deserving families during their first one to two years in the United States.
Please check out the RAMP website at rampnj2.org to find out more and to learn of the many volunteer opportunities.
A Syrian refugee family supported by RAMP on an outing in NYC.
A group of volunteers prepares an apartment in Boonton for the arrival of a refugee family.