The Welcome Project PA/El Proyecto de Bienvenida PA

12/23/2025

✨Happy Holidays from the Welcome Project PA!✨
The Welcome Project PA Staff and Board of Directors wish all of you a peaceful and meaningful holiday season as we approach the end of the calendar year.

💝Sending love and peace to our siblings and friends who have been observing special traditions and festivals this time of year, including:

Hanukah [Jewish]
Advent and Christmas [Christian]
Winter Solstice [Pagan, Wiccan, etc.]
Kwanzaa [African global diaspora]
Gantan-sai or Shogatsu [Shinto]
El Dia de Los Reyes Magos, Epiphany [Eastern Christian, Latin American]

Regardless of your spiritual tradition, we stand with you in solidarity and love, and express gratitude for your support of the work we do. 🫂

12/22/2025

🌈🌈At the Welcome Project we extend an extravagant welcome to anyone who is looking for a brave and affirming space.

❤️‍🔥It is a space to connect, learn, heal, grow, and uplift each other. 🙌 Check out our 7 support groups on our website: https://welcomeprojectpa.org

❄️❄️❄️Upcoming events for this holiday week:

⭐️🌈🎉Tomorrow is our Special Holiday LGBT+ Virtual Support Group
⏳Tuesday, Dec. 23 ·7:00 – 8:30pm

👉🏽Not signed up yet? You may do so here: https://wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E357288&id=49
or 👉🏽click the link in our bio ❤️‍🔥

⭐️🌈 HRT/Transitioning Support Group-in Person/ Canceled [Holiday]
⏳Wed. Dec. 24 7:00pm-8:30pm

⭐️🌈 Sexuality Support Group Virtual Canceled [Holiday]
⏳THU. Dec. 25 7:00pm-8:30pm

Please click the link 🔗 in our bio to register for the support groups.🌈

This information is on our website as well.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or doubts regarding our events or any other details!
✅Info@welcomeprojectpa.org

We can’t wait to Widen the Welcome with new and old friends! 🫂

💫Widen the welcome. Do it now, do it often, keep doing it. And do it together.-WPPA 🌈 🌈

12/20/2025

The Welcome Project’s Director of Immigrant Justice, was quoted in a recent Guardian article, highlighting the stand that Bucks County residents made against local police coordinating with ICE. Learn more here, and please support our advocacy work with migrant communities! Thank you for helping us widen the welcome!

Danny Ceisler’s defeat in sheriff’s race of incumbent who had signed an agreement to work with ICE sends a message on US’s contentious debate around immigration policy

12/19/2025

The Welcome Project’s Director of Immigrant Justice, Heidi Roux, was featured in a WHYY article about one of WPPA’s partner organizations, Project Libertad. Heidi nominated Rachel Rutter for the Good Souls honor. “The work she does, her passion, her drive is astonishing,” Roux said. “She gives her all, and she does such good work. I know of a number of youth that she has helped. That if she had not helped them, they would have no one else.”

Roux came to the U.S. from El Salvador at age 6, fleeing civil war. Now, she’s a U.S. citizen — one who understands intimately what a lifeline people like Rutter provide.

“It’s because of good souls like Rachel that I think that I — and many other children — have been given the opportunity to create wonderful lives and be part of our amazing society and community,” she said.

WPPA is grateful to be in this work with Rachel and Project Libertad. Please support our work in immigrant justice by making your end-of-year gift today! We are thankful for all of you who help us widen the welcome...

❤️‍🔥Together, we will continue widening the welcome and working towards the day when everyone can live with dignity, safety and opportunity. 🗞️Read more: https://whyy.org/episodes/a-beautiful-soul-this-philly-lawyer-helps-undocumented-children-transition-to-the-u-s-with-safety-stability-and-hope/

12/16/2025

The Welcome Project's Director of Immigrant Justice, Heidi Roux, was featured in a WHYY article about one of WPPA's partner organizations, Project Libertad. Heidi nominated Rachel Rutter for the Good Souls honor. “The work she does, her passion, her drive is astonishing,” Roux said. “She gives her all, and she does such good work. I know of a number of youth that she has helped. That if she had not helped them, they would have no one else.”

Roux came to the U.S. from El Salvador at age 6, fleeing civil war. Now, she’s a U.S. citizen — one who understands intimately what a lifeline people like Rutter provide.

“It’s because of good souls like Rachel that I think that I — and many other children — have been given the opportunity to create wonderful lives and be part of our amazing society and community,” she said.

WPPA is grateful to be in this work with Rachel and Project Libertad. Please support our work in immigrant justice by making your end-of-year gift today! We are thankful for all of you who help us widen the welcome...

Many of the kids Rutter helps arrive in the U.S. alone and lack stable housing, food, and mental health care.

12/15/2025

The Welcome Project PA Is grateful and honored to be one of the orgs selected to be part of Delaware Valley Legacy Fund's recent 2025 grantees.
The Delaware Valley Legacy Fund (DVLF) is dedicated to advancing equity & opportunity within the LGBTQ community through advocacy, grantmaking, programming, and education...
DVLF strengthens LGBTQ organizations across the region, empowering individuals & communities to thrive. Thanks to all our friends at the DVLF for helping to Widen the Welcome! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Thank you, DVLF, for selecting Uplift as a 2025 Emerging Needs Grantee! Congratulations to our fellow grantees: Philadelphia Black Pride, Education Law Center, Eastern PA Trans Equity Project, Sisters Affirming Sisterhood Project, The Welcome Project PA/El Proyecto de Bienvenida PA, Asylum Pride House, Galaei, The Attic Youth Center, Colours Organization, Prevention Meets Fashion Inc., BLAQLOV3, Till Arts Project, and Ark of Safety 🌈

12/12/2025

😵‍💫The immigration system can be incredibly difficult to navigate, as there is a lot of misinformation out there.

➡️Do you or anyone you know need resources related to legal status or rights?
➡️ Is your faith community looking for ways to be supportive of immigrant communities?

❤️‍🔥The Welcome Project PA offers free legal clinics, attorney consults, and other supports.

✅Please visit our website for more information and share with others! Or email us at heidi@welcomeprojectpa.org

💫Help us Widen the Welcome!💫🫰🏽

12/11/2025

❄️❄️❄️A Winter Pop-up Thrift ☃️☃️☃️

The Welcome Project Pa’s Pop-Up Thrift Clothing Event

🎄The holiday season got you down?
🙂‍↔️Shake off the stress and the holiday blues!

🛑Stop by The Welcome Project PA for a Pop-up Thrift Clothing Event where we will be giving away vintage clothing donated by generous community members!

⏳December 17th 6:00pm-7:30pm
📍The Welcome Project PA
350 S York Rd, Hatboro, PA

All of the clothing items are free, however if you want to donate to this cause, all of the proceeds raised will go directly to support our work with LGBT+ and immigrant communities.

Want to volunteer at the event?
Please email us at info@welcomeprojectpa.org
Scan the QR to donate or
go to www.welcomeprojectpa.org

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12/10/2025

The Welcome Project PA joins with people around the world to reaffirm the values of human rights, emphasizing that human rights shape our daily lives, many times in ways we may not notice. Human rights are essentials, and not abstract concepts. So on this 10th day of December, 2025, Human Rights Day, we join hand in hand, arm in arm with our siblings across the globe: human rights are positive, essential and attainable! Let's keep on Widening the Welcome!

12/09/2025

Remember, it’s tomorrow! Wednesday, December 10th, the State of Welcome, 7pm, 350 S York Rd in Hatboro. Join our Director of Immigrant Justice, Heidi Roux and a dynamic group of panelists as they highlight their work with immigrant communities, what they are observing, and how you can get involved. Hope to see you tomorrow night!
🙌Participating organizations [this list will continue to be updated]:
➡️Asylum Pride House 🌈
➡️Montgomery County Immigrant Affairs
➡️New Sanctuary Movement
➡️Woori Center
➡️The Welcome Project PA
➡️Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition (PIC)
➡️Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance
🗓️Wednesday, December 10th,
🕖7:00 pm
📍350 S. York Rd. Hatboro, PA 19040
🆓Free of charge, open to the public.
Ways to register:
☑️RSVP at http://weblink.donorperfect.com/TheStateOfWelcome
☑️SCAN TO REGISTER
☑️Click the link in our bio or
for more info: info@welcomeprojectpa.org or visit our ☑️website: https://welcomeprojectpa.org

12/08/2025

As we near our The State of Welcome: Immigrant Justice Work in PA event on Wed, December 10th, we highlight the good work of our Director of Immigrant Justice, Heidi Roux. Heidi was of course the Executive Director of Immigrant Rights Action before merging with the Welcome Project. We are so grateful to have Heidi as part of our team! Hope to see many of you this Wednesday evening where you can learn more about our work with immigrant communities and how you can be part of it.

🙌Participating organizations [this list will continue to be updated]:
➡️Asylum Pride House 🌈
➡️Montgomery County Immigrant Affairs
➡️New Sanctuary Movement
➡️Woori Center
➡️The Welcome Project PA
➡️Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition (PIC)
➡️Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance
🗓️Wednesday, December 10th,
🕖7:00 pm
📍350 S. York Rd. Hatboro, PA 19040
🆓Free of charge, open to the public.
Ways to register:
☑️RSVP at http://weblink.donorperfect.com/TheStateOfWelcome
☑️SCAN TO REGISTER
☑️Click the link in our bio or
for more info: info@welcomeprojectpa.org or visit our ☑️website: https://welcomeprojectpa.org
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