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Q&A: "New Kids" author Brooke Hauser on refugee teens in America
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 2nd, 2012
Brooke Hauser, author of “The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens,” talks about the particular challenges faced by young refugees as they start their new lives in America. more »
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“The New Kids”
Posted by The.IRC on January 27th, 2012
This afternoon Brooke Hauser, author of “The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens,” visited our New York headquarters for a discussion about the challenges young refugees must overcome in their new lives in America. more »
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Photo Share: New friends, new roots
Posted by The.IRC on December 13th, 2011
Bindya Tamang and her family lived for 15 years in a refugee camp in Nepal, where she helped to put food on the table by growing vegetables. Today she's a member of the IRC's New Roots community garden in the Bronx. more »
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Noted: On the soccer field, a roster full of refugees
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on November 15th, 2011
A terrific piece posted on the New York Times City Room blog today captures the team spirit and endurance of a group of refugees who play in a United Nations soccer league in New York. more »
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Photo of the Day: Urban gardening, New York
Posted by The.IRC on October 13th, 2011
Refugee gardeners participating in the IRC's New Roots program at Drew Gardens in the Bronx. New Roots brings resettled refugees together to share experiences and feel a connection to their new home through community gardening. more »
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Refugees in U.S. take up farming - IRC in the New York Times
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on October 11th, 2011
A story published in the New York Times yesterday spotlights community farms around the United States dedicated to refugee agriculture – including the IRC’s own New Roots program. more »
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Photo of the Day: Harvest, New York
Posted by The.IRC on September 13th, 2011
A late summer harvest of cherry tomatoes and peppers from the IRC's New Roots Garden in the Bronx. The garden is tended by refugees from Bhutan, Cameroon, Pakistan and Afghanistan. more »
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9/11: Ten years later
Posted by The.IRC on September 9th, 2011
This week, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, The New Yorker magazine tells the stories of ordinary people who were affected by 9/11. One of them is a teacher from Iraq named Bushra Naji. more »
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Hurricane Irene: Helping refugees prepare
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on August 26th, 2011
As Hurricane Irene makes its way up the East Coast of the United States, several cities where IRC aids resettled refugees sit right in the projected path of the storm. We’re battening down the hatches in these offices and helping refugees and IRC staff to prepare. more »
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Mothers' Stories: Uma Timsina, New York
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on May 5th, 2011
In honor of Mother's Day we're spotlighting some of our favorite posts about mothers. Almost 20 years after they were banished from their home in Bhutan, Uma Timsina and her husband Chet Nath left a refugee camp in Nepal—and everything familiar—to rebuild their lives with their young son in New York. more »
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