Thrive Center, Tacoma.

We’re going state-wide with our mission to Empower Multicultural Communities to THRIVE.

Thrive Center Tacoma was founded to support refugees and immigrants in the Seattle area.

With King County, Thrive has been moving asylum-seekers out of encampments and into transitional housing since the third week of December, 2023.

β€œLearning about Thrive changed everything.”

Meet the Thrive Tacoma Team

  • Portrait of Anna Bondarenko

    Anna Bondarenko

    King County Project Director. anna@thriveinternational.org

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  • Portrait of Rahim Rashidi

    Rahim Rashidi

    Resource Coordinator. abdul@thriveinternational.org

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  • Portrait of Moisire Peralta

    Moisire Peralta

    Resource Coordinator. moisire@thriveinternational.org

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  • Portrait of Karla Peroza

    Karla Peroza

    Resource Coordinator
    karla@thriveinternational.org

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  • Portrait of Myriam Bakonga

    Myriam Bakonga

    Resource Coordinator. myriam@thriveinternational.org

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  • Portrait of Sonia Rodriguez

    Sonia Rodriguez

    Immigration Staff Attorney sonia@thriveinternational.org

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"I am so happy and thankful right now because Thrive is my family now."

β€œI would love to show them that there is still hope in life.”

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Last week, with the help of our amazing team and community, Thrive Center Tacoma provided a roof for 341 people! We’re so grateful to witness the beginning of a new chapter of life for asylum seekers in King County.
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It is such an inspiration to see our newly-hired program participants so totally focused on sharpening their new skills! πŸ’ͺπŸΎπŸ’» Fleeing violence, these participants left behind abundant careers hoping to give back to their new home. And though they f
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Here at Thrive Seattle, love is THRIVING! So much so that this Saturday, we didn’t just host one wedding, or two weddings – we wedded EIGHT couples at the SAME TIMEβ€ΌπŸ€― In eight magical moments, everyone came together to bring these beauti
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The future is shining bright here at Thrive ✨ In just this past week, we saw not one, not two, but FIVE 🀯 of our program participants become the first at Thrive Seattle to begin their own careers! πŸŽ‰ They may be off to Amazon and Compass Group to st
🩡 Three hundred faces making up one family. πŸ’š Three different translations delivering one message. πŸ’› Three phases of Thrive culminating one mission. These three things came together in one resident meeting, to see three hundred voices ringing o
Want to get to know Thrive better? Here’s two truths and a lie! 🀫πŸ€₯ 1️⃣ You’re looking at a bright young mind with a future as a doctor πŸ‘©πŸΏ‍βš•οΈ 2️⃣ Thanks again to our continued partnership with Go-Vax Kids, we were able to help 46
Thrive is a home for new beginnings and next chapters, which is why we could not be more proud for the Thrive center to serve our residents as a wedding venue! πŸ’’ This past Sunday, we got to celebrate with our newlyweds the joys at the core of Thrive
πŸ“… Today, on June 20, we join the international community in celebrating World Refugee Day: a commemoration of the courage, resilience, and hope carried by every person who has fled their home in search of a brighter future. Not all of those courag
The next phase of Thrive is HERE. 🚨 βŒ› Six months ago, Thrive International set off on a new journey in Seattle as we moved one mother and her three kids from their cold, rain-battered tent to the warmth and safety of the DoubleTree hotel. Since th
There are always ways to help at Thrive, where even the lounge doubles as our Resource Coordination Office. Languages from Lingala to Farsi swirl with the sounds of legal calls and text-to-speech translations. Where there's a gap in communication, th
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. πŸ‘£ This week, 11 Thrive participants took that bold first step into a bright future ✨ as we partnered with Asian Counseling and Referral Service (@acrsnews) to help them enroll in the ACRS emp
The best things come in big red packages! πŸ›» Thanks to the fantastic folks from Medical Teams International βš•, eleven asylum seekers received the dental care they deserve at our very own Thrive Community Center! πŸ¦·πŸ‘©πŸ½‍βš•οΈ We’re so happy to

Contact Information

If you are interested in donating supplies, providing workshops, or collaborating with Thrive, please contact us below.

King County Project Manager Anna Bondarenko: anna@thriveinternational.org / 509-209-1996

For media inquiries, please reach out to Thrive International’s Communications Account: communications@thriveinternational.org