Tag: International Rescue Committee

  • Around the Community Table

    Photo Credit: Adam, age 12, Iraq | Courtesy of The AjA Project Craft, organic coffee and specialty produce were once reserved for farmers markets and niche grocers in affluent neighborhoods. In City Heights, however, Agora Bean + Leaf sells specialty tea and coffee in chic packaging from the same row of stalls where refugees sell…

  • San Diego Offers Free Gardening Classes to Produce Healthy Lifestyles

    By Susan Murphy Published May 17, 2011 on San Diego County will offer free gardening classes as part of an initiative to improve health and combat obesity. The hope is for people to eat healthier by learning to grow their own fruits and vegetables and incorporate them into healthy meals. San Diego County officials and community…

  • A Rule Changes, a County Stumbles and Refugees Suffer

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published April 19, 2011 on When Amaal Al-Mifraji arrived in San Diego in February, the worst of her troubles appeared to be over. She and her two children, ages 17 and 20, settled into a small one-bedroom apartment in a sprawling complex in El Cajon, one among the…

  • Pulling Themselves, and Each other, Out of Poverty

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published February 17, 2011 on When Hamun Yussuf was a girl, a vicious civil war broke out in Somalia, her home. Many of the men in her tribe left to fight. A lot never returned. Yussuf’s family fled to Kenya, where her mother worked at a shop while…

  • Somalis Adjust to U.S. Life, But Integration and Jobs Still Problems

    By Amita Sharma Published September 28, 2010 on Photo Courtesy of Amina Farrah   It was 2 o’clock in the morning back in 1988. Amina Farah was about to go from a middle-class mother with a house and a job at the Central Bank of Somalia to refugee. Civil war had just erupted. The dark…