Since 2016, we have strived to raise awareness and spread love to refugees around the world.
OUR MISSION
New Beginnings is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in the United States with the mission to provide hope, supplies, and to put smiles on the faces of refugees who are in search of a ‘New Beginning’.
OUR VISION
New Beginnings envisions a world where the refugees may be able to have a ‘New Beginning’ and restart their lives from times of turmoil and trouble.
Aims :
Collect donations and supplies to package
Make packages to send to refugees
Advocate for refugees
Educate the youth about the refugees today
Call on world leaders to aid refugees
Meet The Founders
Shannen Recio
Shannen Recio is a current junior at UC Davis pursuing a degree in Global Diseases Biology, where she is focusing on pursuing medicine as a career. She founded New Beginnings after doing some work with refugees as part of the Congressional Action Team member for UNICEF and a youth speaker and advocate for genUN. She is also a first generation Filipina and does research on various topics ranging from ancient diet, diseases, and more!
Shannen is passionate about service and serving others so she tries to go back to the Philippines once a year to help her community with long lasting solutions to lift them up from poverty from providing school supplies to help the students perform better in school to funding a breakfast program to feed those who do not have any to eat.
As co-founder of New Beginnings, she hopes to focus on her humanitarian work and combine global health and service.
Sabrina Bojeh
Sabrina co-founded New Beginnings because she wanted to be able to express her passion for helping others and wanted to make a difference in the lives of refugees. She currently attends UC San Diego as a junior where she is majoring in pre-law political science and minoring in Law and Society. Her background as a Palestinian woman with immigrant parents fuels her to integrate her passion for helping others and her own history into this organization and cause. Today, 40% of the world’s refugees are Palestinian, making this a near and dear issue to Sabrina.
She currently works for the Office of San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa where she helps draft legislation, with the current times focusing on issues that relate to Covid-19 and the BLM movement. She is also an intern and scholarship recipient of San Mateo County’s Public Service Sector.
Sabrina’s love for helping out her local community also expands to helping out people, such as refugees, overseas.