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NBC video: "When I'm here in the garden, I feel like I'm home."
January 18, 2013
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"When I'm here in the garden, I feel like I'm home."
So says Ugandan refugee Luchia Lokonyen, who was resettled in San Diego four years ago and finds healing in a 600 square-foot International Rescue Committee garden that she shares with 85 other families from places like Cambodia, Myanmar and Somalia.
NBC Nightly News: Refugees discover new ways to plant roots in America
Posted in Resettlement, New Roots, United States, US - San Diego, CA | Tags: refugees, community gardening, new roots, resettlement, urban farming, Ugandan refugees, Luchia Lokonyen
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