Municipal employees are being asked to volunteer for multiple 12-hour shifts over the next month to greet and direct newly arriving migrants.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.City employees are being asked to volunteer multiple 12-hour shifts — in lieu of their normal duties — to help direct and manage busloads of new migrants expected to arrive at newly opened “emergency respite sites,” according to a copy of an email shared with Gothamist.
Of the roughly 61,000 asylum-seekers that have arrived since last spring, the city is caring for more than 37,500 in emergency shelters and other facilities. A different email that went out on Monday noted that the city is most in need of site managers, but also could use "general support, security, cleaning and other human-service-related responsibilities."
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