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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I volunteered for this organization to sponsor an Afghan refugee family The person who founded it is a now at Stanford. https://www.irocenter.org/about-immigrant-refugee-outreach-center-dmv[/quote]

This is an NCS STA family that has charted the paths of all their children in the school since the first day of school! All kids dabble in saving the refugees. Parents are lawyers who basically run the organization for them in their name. It's truly the most egregious Tiger Mom, Lion Dad case anyone has ever known on the Close.[/quote]

And there are parents like this all over the country essentially cheating to make their kids appear amazing. [/quote]

And parents like this around the world too. My friend in an Asian country (she and her spouse are US-college educated) did something similar. Their daughter "Larla" was leading an initiative to teach her hobby to poor kids in another developing country, starting around 10th grade. The mom shared the gofundme-type page and I gave a small amount (she is a good friend, just misguided on this front). But from the gofundme content, it seemed like the fundraising was basically Larla's parents getting their friends to donate. Naturally, the parents both "helped" organize the trip to carry out the hobby-related event, and the event had a fancy name. Afterwards, the girl also managed to parlay this 'charitable effort' into getting onto some speaker panels for 'youth leaders'...this was covid time so there were lots of these virtual/international conferences with a low bar for attending. The girl got into an ivy...I think she's smart, she had a serious hobby, and could have been an attractive candidate without the whole charitable-event thing... but the whole thing really annoyed me.

It was a little more creative than the 'start a nonprofit in your backyard' angle, and the 'youth leader' speaker thing probably got her more mileage...I think the college admissions may have been fooled.

This one the PP shared is pretty transparently ridiculous, though. As someone who has worked with refugees a little, and has seen a lot of other volunteers doing this kind of stuff informally,  it's really disappointing to see someone start something that is most likely duplicating efforts, all for the sake of looking good. There are numerous other established refugee-supporting organizations in the area. Why the need to create a separate organization instead of helping advance the work of one of the other ones...Disappointing that Stanford did not see through this ploy.[/quote]

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