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Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 22nd, 2010
This Earth Day, we're celebrating resettled refugees from around the world who are helping to make their new communities in the United States a little bit greener. more »
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on April 15th, 2010
On a whirlwind tour to promote her initiative to end childhood obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama had a brief respite today in a green oasis. It was the unlikeliest of oases: a 2.3-acre strip of land along a busy San Diego street, transformed with hard work--and great hopes--by 80 refugee farmers into a bountiful garden. more »
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on March 23rd, 2010
"It’s not fun being a stranger and no money and in a foreign country where you don’t know anybody. So I found out about IRC, and I went to them, and I told them my story and they were so helpful." - Mary Page more »
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on November 25th, 2009
YouTuber extraordinaire LisaNova recently visited an IRC garden in San Diego where refugees uprooted from 8 countries are working together to create something new. She shared this video she made about their first harvest. more »
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on October 12th, 2007
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on October 11th, 2007

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