Tuesday June 3 - Thursday June 5
I am interning at Refugee Empowerment Program this summer. Many refugees move to Memphis every year because it is home to a World Relief resettlement agency. REP serves 200-400 of these refugees, mostly from Africa and Asia, by helping them adjust to a different culture and giving them the tools to succeed in their new home. The goal of REP is "to empower the refugee community by encouraging, educating, and equipping individual refugees, refugee families, and the refugee community."
On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I worked at the REP office doing communications work. Through sites like hootesuite, I wrote and scheduled twitter posts. REP is trying to up its public relations game, and utilizing social media is its main strategy. On twitter, REP is getting word out about global news regarding refugees as well as local news and news about the organization itself. Also, I constructed a template for REP's monthly newsletter which is sent which is sent to subscribers via email to keep them up to date on what REP is doing in the community. The office is located in the Memphis Leadership Foundation building which is at a different location than where REP actually works with refugees, so for the first several days, I was not able to interact with the children REP are working with this summer.
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