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6 voices for 6 decades - UNHCR

An intimate portrait of six compelling refugee stories spanning six decades. Their stories exemplify the courageous experience of leaving home and starting a new life in America.  One of those featured is Bank of America managing director and International Rescue Committee board member Trinh Doan.

Learn more on the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) website.

11 Aug 2011

John Legend meets refugee students

On July 7, John Legend visited the IRC's Refugee Youth Summer Academy in New York, where newly arrived refugee kids and teens are learning to adjust to life and school in the United States.

29 Jul 2011

Budding new lives Refugees say volunteering at garden grounds them

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Budding new lives Refugees say volunteering at garden grounds them
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July 29, 2011
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Refugees from all over the world are putting down roots at a vegetable farm in the Bronx. The new arrivals - who hail from troubled nations such as Ivory Coast, Iraq, Bhutan and Burma - are growing peanuts, strawberries, radishes, carrots and lettuce at Drew Gardens on E.
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A woman to woman welcome in Tucson

Tucson, Arizona - 12 Jul 2011 -  

Chandra Sangrula, an IRC well-being promoter, welcomes fellow Bhutanese refugee Dhana Thapa to Tucson with an IRC welcome basket.
Chandra Sangrula, an IRC well-being promoter, welcomes fellow Bhutanese refugee Dhana Thapa to Tucson with an IRC welcome basket. “I’m happy that we can talk about anything,” Thapa says. (Photo: Peter Biro/IRC)

By Peter Biro

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A dad and daughter reunited


June 28, 2011
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EXCLUSIVE: Jencarlos Canela is Single, Bilingual, and Ready to Mingle!

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EXCLUSIVE: Jencarlos Canela is Single, Bilingual, and Ready to Mingle!
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June 20, 2011
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| Cuban American television star and musician Jencarlos Canela may be the biggest double threat to hit the small screen since Ricky Martin (his first album Buscame topped the Latin charts and he’s currently starring in his fourth telenovela) but he hasn’t yet crossed the line into becoming a mainst

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Stumped on what to get Dad this Father's Day? Last-minute gift ideas with impact

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Stumped on what to get Dad this Father's Day? Last-minute gift ideas with impact
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June 17, 2011
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He's there for you no matter what, and with Father's Day around the corner, it's your opportunity to thank him back. Stumped on what to give that special dad in your life this Father's Day? Have no fear.

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A father who will stop at nothing

MIAMI - 17 Jun 2011 -  

So much has happened since Ernst Leo and his nine-year-old daughter, Therissa, arrived in the United States in October 2010. Victims of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January of that year, they could not have imagined how their world would change—twice.

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