We are energized by people who are ready and excited to be in community with displaced families who are working to rebuild home here in Carrboro-Chapel Hill and Durham. We believe that those who are closest to the problem are in the best position to determine its solutions, and do all of our work from the bottom up. Shared ownership is a guiding principle of RCP, where refugee families, volunteers, staff, and Board members together shape the organization.
We take a person-centered, relationship-building approach to our work. We believe that help giving relationships are far more powerful when they are understood as mutual, reciprocal partnerships, where both parties are experts in their own experiences and have an abundance of skills, gifts, and wisdom to offer one another, rather than a charity-based relationship. We contextualize our efforts within an analysis of structural and social power and use that lens to forge relationships of true interdependence and solidarity between neighbors.
