C-U Immigration Forum

The CU Immigration Forum is hosting a clothing drive for students from Guatemala who are in Champaign-Urbana alone. In 2014, over 68,000 children from Central America crossed the US Mexico border alone. Several of these children are here in our community. The students in Urbana left Guatemala to escape poverty, violence, and crime. They live independently and support themselves and have to pay for expensive legal representation to support their asylum cases. We hope to provide warm clothes for the upcoming winter months.  We are collecting winter coats, winter boots, hats, gloves, scarves, and sweaters. Sizes ranging from small and medium adult shirts, medium jackets, 28-30 pants, and 7-8 shoes. Also one younger child who is size 12 pants, medium children's jacket & shirts, and size 5 shoes.  You can drop off clothes at 1001 S. Wright St. in Champaign, IL from  9am-8pm   Nov. 7th - Nov. 14th . If you wish to donate money please click on our "support" tab...

Dear Friends, It is our community members who encourage the CU Immigration Forum to reach out and connect in new and meaningful ways. We invite you to grow with the Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum as we have officially become a 501c3 community non-profit. Please join us for our new CU Immigration Forum meeting format starting this December 2015! (Our November 10th meeting will be cancelled as we are hosting the Immigrant-Friendly Fair & Forum at the Unitarian Universalist Church that evening. We'd love to chat with you there! Also, mark your calendars for The Forum: More Than One Story to take place on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 5pm at the University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign.) ​ The CU Immigration Forum was created in order to bring together people who were interested in and working on issues related to immigration. We wanted to share information and resources in the hopes that this would not only increase our individual effectiveness, allowing us to...