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American Friends Service Committee
[uh-mer-i-kuhn frendz sur-vis kuh-mit-ee]
noun
a social-service organization founded in 1917 by the Society of Friends: Nobel Peace Prize 1947. AFSC, A.F.S.C.
Example Sentences
The American Friends Service Committee has also shifted its work to focus on offering “know your rights” presentations at schools, churches and community centers.
A year earlier, when historic numbers of migrants were arriving at the border, the American Friends Service Committee, a national Quaker-founded human rights organization, came to their aid.
Trump’s demands “show a fundamental disconnect from the realities of the border, of immigration,” said Adriana Jasso, coordinator of the U.S.-Mexico border program in San Diego for the American Friends Service Committee.
Health notices in different languages at a field camp run by the American Friends Service Committee at the border in San Diego.
Supplies for migrants at a field camp run by the American Friends Service Committee that is set up next to the border fence in San Diego.
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