Save Kara Project

Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. needs ur help! If funding JALA (&Save Kara Project) is important to u/ur community, please contact ur city councilman ASAP! Also, supporters, we need YOU to attend the City Council Meeting June 28 at 430PM & SHOW City Council what JALA means 2 our community!http://jimmymidyette.com/post/6813145198/this-is-important-help-me-to-help-jala-today

This is important. Help me to help JALA today. This economy is taking its toll on our friends and neighbors in Jacksonville. It’s gotten so bad that it’s began to also take its toll on the people who stand in the breach to help those who live in the pervasive grip poverty. The social safety net, tattered and threadbare after ten years of war a

More and more proof that it is time for our local community to come together and save its unsung heroes - Kara's Justice League (Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc.)!
http://jacksonville.com/opinion/editorials/2011-06-14/story/legal-aid-new-funding-needed-services

Legal Aid: New funding is needed for services | jacksonville.com City Council should pass a bill that helps Legal Aid's funding stay current.The needs have never been so great in these difficult times.Very low interest rates have devastated a trust account from the Florida Bar Foundation.Due to this loss of funding. Jacksonville Area Legal Aid could lose one-thir

Check it out! Save Kara Project helped for this year, BUT what about JALA's future? Our JALA family loves a challenge, but wishes it was our caseload and not our ability to continue providing services - the need for support from our local community to the benefit of our local community is greater now than ever!
http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/fb_showstory.php?Story_id=533716

Legal Aid victim of Scott vetoes - The Daily Record - Jacksonville, Florida The Daily Record publishes news, profiles and articles of interest to the Jacksonville urban core's business, financial and legal communities.

A good day: client recv'd very important document allowing her to request extension of daughter's visa & finally be reunited after yrs; client described 05/06 doing great, can't wait to start working; & finally heard from Embassy in DC about client's document that is the last thing needed so children go to interview & finally be reunited w/their mother & a father they've never met. Thnx to all who "Saved Kara"

Just helped a client maintain sanity & work toward becoming a self-sustaining, productive member of society - client suffering from mental health issues feared relapsing due to inability to obtain medicine b/c lacked proof of status. Client would've run out of meds if local Imm. weren't willing to consider urgency of the case & issue temp proof of residency. This one did not fall through the cracks! Thank you USCIS

Just about every member of the Save Kara Team participated in Citizenship Day! We are honored to have been able to participate and look forward to doing it again next year! http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=533385

Citizenship Day at Florida Coastal - The Daily Record - Jacksonville, Florida The Daily Record publishes news, profiles and articles of interest to the Jacksonville urban core's business, financial and legal communities.

A lovely video from Humanity Healing Foundation that a client sent as an expression of the client's perspective of what the Refugee Immigration Project at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. (and the Save Kara Project) means to the client: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkSN_buNl4Q

We Are The Ones We Are Waiting For Change starts when someone sees the next step. ~ William Drayton Step this way: Humanity Healing Foundation: http://www.humanityhealing.org Humanity Healing Community: http://www.humanityhealing.ning.com Loosely adapted from an Advertisement for Apple Computer, who adapted from the wr

If you give me a fish, you have fed me for a day. If you teach me to fish, then you have fed me until the river is contaminated or the shoreline is seized for development. But if you teach me to organize, then whatever the challenge, I can join together with my peers and we will fashion our own solution. -Ricardo Morales

Last 1 for today! Excellent example of yet another basis for person seeking refuge in the USA! Amazing case won by friends of Save Kara, Carlos Martin & Karen Winston, through the Immigrant Rights Clinic of Florida Coastal School of Law (where Kara found her calling/bliss).
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-04-06/story/jacksonville-man-fights-deportation-his-albinism-de

Jacksonville man fights deportation with his albinism as a defense | jacksonville.com When Franklin Ibeabuchi was 7 or 8 years old, a stranger approached him at an open-air market in Nigeria, and he saw the terror in his grandmother's face.The man spoke with him and guided him away from the crowd as Ibeabuchi's grandmother came running toward them. Until that moment, Ibeabuchi didn't

Come to Legal Art Walk III at Zodiac Cafe on April 6 starting at 5:30 p.m. to benefit Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc.'s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Unit! Art by members of the legal community will be available, including beautiful pieces by attorney Deborah Reid. Musical entertainment will be provided by local attorneys, too. That's right, attorneys get creative, too! Hope to see you there!

Reminder of why we need to provide svcs to the refugees resettled in Jax - they bring their talents/dreams/potential/ideas/& every hope imaginable to our city to the benefit of our economy & society as a whole. Mr. Abboud was recently on NPR & is among the refugees resettled in Jacksonville in 2008 - these are the wonderful, amazing people our Project assists.
http://www.pontevedrarecorder.com/features/108454984.html

Abbas Abboud - Ponte Vedra Recorder I started playing the piano when I was 4 years old. My dad was looking for something to calm me down, and it turned out to be piano. I learned how to read music before I could read and write Arabic.