Workforce Development

• Setting up English & computer classes

• Teaching basic job skills• Creating resume,

interview, and job etiquette workshops

• Giving the refugees confidence to join the workforce

Women’s Issues

• Bond with the refugee women

• Understand & explain cultural differences

• Create activities for the community such as a community garden and a knitting circle

Children and Youth Development

• Create activities for the younger children such as art days & a soccer league

• Help them with academic projects

• Teach kids basic safety• Art Classes Sundays

Children’s Art Exhibits• Exhibit at the Houston

Institute for Culture, September 1-10, 2009

• Exhibit at the Altharetta Yeargin Museum, October 29-November 13, 2009

• November 7: Free museum day with programs on Bhutanese art

SYMP – Sewa Youth Mentorship Program

• Development of Sewa Youth Clubs at Hastings and West View high schools, where Bhutanese kids are going to school (in progress)

• Raising awareness and assigning mentors

Bhutanese Community Festivals • Earlier phase – Bhutanese

people participated in Indian Festivals and we put a lot of energy in giving rides

• Now, they have started celebrating their own festivals

• Leadership has evolved but we until have had to support financially

Get Inspired Houston• First Sewa International

internship conducted on a local level

• Reaches out to Houston youth to promote service and awareness

• GIH interns initiated 2009’s most successful Sewa projects

• Community Cloth and Children’s Art Class

Community Cloth: Micro-loans • Micro-loans given to refugee

women to produce and sell native crafts

• A Sewa-led consortium between Interfaith Ministries, the Somali Bantu Community, the Bhutanse-Nepali Community and individual volunteers

• Supports Somali-Bantu, Karenni-Burmese and Bhutanese women

Yogathon and Health Fair

• January 2009 • A one-day community

event promoting a healthy lifestyle

• Free health check-up camp

• Educational and promotional booths, workshops, and yoga marathon