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Freedom Fete 2011

US - Atlanta, GA
08.12.2011

Your gift to the IRC in Atlanta's 2011 Freedom Fete will directly fund the IRC in Atlanta's work creating opportunities for refugee to thrive in America.

 

Whether you buy a virtual ticket or two or choose to give at our auction,  or both, your attendance at Freedom Fete will make a powerful difference in the lives of refugees we are resettling today.

 

The photos that follow illustrate how your donation can help the IRC in Atlanta's programs.

 

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<p>IRC Atlanta caseworkers Elhamija Kadic (right) and Meliha Bosnjak, former refgees from Bosnia, place an order for mattresses for the evacuee families&#39; new homes. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>The Freeman family of New Orleans gets ready to sign the lease on the apartment the IRC found for them in Atlanta. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>Lola Freeman tours the new apartment with IRC caseworkers Rod Conrad and Yulia LeGood. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>Rod (left), Lola, and Yulia (far right) check out the apartment&#39;s fully stocked kitchen. The IRC is furnishing evacuee families&#39; apartments with kitchen supplies, beds, bedding and other household basics. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>Lola and Gerry Anderson (far right) meet one of their new neighbors. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>Lola shows photos of the home the family lost to Hurricane Katrina. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>Gerry meets with IRC job developer Kelly Irwin. The IRC is helping hurricane evacuees find job opportunities with employers in their new communities and set up interviews. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>Vu Lam, from Biloxi, Mississippi, assembles furniture for the apartment donated to his family while his mother, Van Dang (standing, left) and IRC caseworker Maryam Williams look on. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>Vu Lam&#39;s wife, Nhi Nguyen, prepares lunch. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p>
<p>IRC caseworker Maryam Williams, from Iran, reviews bills with Vu Lam. Photo: Jim Stawniak.</p><p><em><span style="font-size: smaller;">(First posted December 2005)</span></em></p>

After Katrina: A new home in Atlanta

US - Atlanta, GA
08.27.2010

Across the United States, IRC resettlement offices, which have long helped refugees from war-torn countries rebuild their lives, extended aid to families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Photographer Jim Stawniak was on hand that fall when two families who lost homes to Katrina moved into the new apartments the IRC found for them in Atlanta.

 

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