Category: Refugees
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San Diego Tenants Union Fights For Refugees And Other Low-Income Renters
The ongoing housing affordability crisis impacts nearly everyone in California, but few are hit harder than the refugee community.
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Dinner Celebrates Volunteers
The Vietnamese-American Community shows the strength of their grasroots movement at their Lunar Year Festival Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. To learn more about the Little Saigon San Diego Foundation visit https://www.littlesaigonsandiego.org. To learn more about their New Lunar Year Tet Festival visit https://lunarnewyearfestival.org. Read more at Speak City Heights http://www.speakcityheights.org Produced by Ernesto Munoz, Media Arts…
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First African Youth Empowerment Conference
When talking about helping refugees from Africa settle into the United States, Justin B. Mudekereza takes special care to meet them where they are. Through his nonprofit organization New Neighbor Relief, he helps refugee families settle into their new home in America. Now that many call City Heights their home, he worked to bring refugees…
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Business Enterprise Center Opens in City Heights
Dante Dauz wanted to help young people stay out of gangs and help train them to get jobs. He soon realized that, once students were trained, there were no places for them to work in City Heights. The Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC) Neighborhood Enterprise Center became a vision and a solution. At the…
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Culture Report: An Unflinching Look at Refugee Life in City Heights
Alephonsion Deng and Judy Bernstein, co-authors of “Disturbed in Their Nests.” / Photo by Julia Dixon Evans “I always knew I had a story but I never knew I would share it with anybody,” said Alephonsion Deng, one of the co-authors of “Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City…