Welcome Home Jersey City

Fun Club Jersey City Fun Club provides a safe place for local refugee and asylee families to learn, play, and grow. Our goal is to help the adults establish a foundation for success through ESL tutoring, job placement advice, cultural conversations, and friendship, while giving children a chance to enjoy age-appropriate activities and homework help. As refugees and volunteers alike forge new friendships, we will dispel stereotypes and build bridges instead of walls. Please take a look through the volunteer opportunities and feel free to select as many or as few as you wish. If you want to help with tutoring and also drive a car, please consider volunteering to pick up a family on your way to and from Saint Peter's University. There is free parking available in a lot right behind the RLC. Please make donations to Jersey City Fun Club at https://www.paypal.me/welcomehomerefugees. Your donations are tax deductible.

If all slots have been claimed, please sign up for another week; be mindful of the space as Fun Club functions primarily for our friends (clients). We ask all friends and volunteers to be fully vaccinated against covid-19; if you have not done so yet, please send a copy of your vaccine card to Jen at jmoranchel@welcomehomerefugees.org. All student volunteers must be accompanied by an adult.

FYI: The sign-up is locked on the day of, for planning purposes so that we don't have last-minute sign-ups and so that we have an idea of how many folks to expect and how much pizza to order! If you are looking to volunteer after the sign-up has closed, let us know directly by emailing jackie@welcomehomerefugees.org.