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@winmitch No, it's not the same program. More on our programs in Kenya: t.co/Py9peewR.
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Hurricane Katrina
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 29th, 2011
As the East Coast of the United States cleans up after Hurricane Irene, the Gulf Coast is commemorating the sixth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Back in 2005, IRC refugee resettlement offices across the country extended aid to families who were displaced by Katrina. more »
Posted in Resettlement, United States, US - Atlanta, GA | Tags: resettlement, natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Irene, Irene | 0 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on September 3rd, 2010
In 2005, Albert Mbanfu, a refugee from Cameroon, started a new job with the IRC helping people made homeless by Hurricane Katrina relocate to Atlanta and find work. He spoke with me last week about his experience as "a displaced person helping displaced people." more »
Posted in Resettlement, US - Atlanta, GA | Tags: refugees, Hurricane Katrina | 0 Comments
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 »
Posted in Resettlement, US - Atlanta, GA | Tags: refugees, natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina | 0 Comments
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 »
Posted in Resettlement, US - Atlanta, GA | Tags: emergencies, natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Atlanta | 0 Comments
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