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Quoted: Elderly and disabled refugees may lose financial aid
Posted by The.IRC on September 2nd, 2010
Problematic changes in the Supplemental Social Security Income program may cut off the incomes of vulnerable refugees. The IRC’s Bob Carey says the changes run “counter to the humanitarian principles” on which the U.S. accepted the refugees. more »
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005: A refugee helps America's displaced
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on September 2nd, 2010
Elhamija Kadic fled war and persecution in Bosnia in 1992 and came to the United States with the help of the IRC. Today she works for the IRC in Atlanta helping other refugees from war-torn countries. When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, she helped coordinate the IRC's response. She spoke with me last week about that experience. more »
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Back to school
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 31st, 2010
An IRC summer program in New York helps young people who grew up in war zones and refugee camps adjust to life and education in the United States. more »
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Five years after Hurricane Katrina
Posted by The.IRC on August 27th, 2010
Photographer Jim Stawniak was on hand in fall 2005 when two families who lost homes to Hurricane Katrina -- Lola Freeman's from New Orleans and Vu Lam's from Biloxi, Mississippi -- moved into the new apartments the IRC found for them in Atlanta. more »
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Helping young refugees adjust to NYC life
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 11th, 2010
Haider Alzubaidy, a native of Baghdad, Iraq, remembers running to school to avoid being shot by a sniper. Haider is now a student at the IRC's Summer Youth Academy, learning how to adjust to life and education in New York City. more »
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From refugees to proud new U.S. citizens [Video]
Posted by The.IRC on July 2nd, 2010
The IRC's Robin Dunn Marcos speaks with Fox News about the ten refugees from around the world who became U.S. citizens at a June 21 naturalization ceremony in Phoenix. more »
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New freedoms and customs -- and connections to home
Posted by Misha Cohen on June 22nd, 2010
Freelance photographer and IRC volunteer Misha Cohen has been telling the story of the Bhutanese Timsina family’s first months in the U.S. in pictures. Since their arrival in the U.S., the Timsina family is able to enjoy freedoms that were stripped from them in Bhutan. more »
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"A nation of refugees"
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on June 18th, 2010
“We are not just a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of refugees”: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at an event in Washington, D.C. marking World Refugee Day. more »
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Touchdown!
Posted by The.IRC on May 27th, 2010
For five Tuesdays this spring, a group of refugee teenagers in Boise, Idaho, have been getting together in the afternoon to play football -- a sport that is completely new to them. more »
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Haiti: Baby Jenny and family, together again
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 6th, 2010
It's just extraordinary that a two month old infant with serious injuries could survive three days under the rubble, that she would be found and evacuated to the U.S. for medical care, that her parents, informed that she was dead, would keep searching and eventually locate her more »
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