Tag: IRC
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Summer Soccer League Supports Refugee Girls
Girls Outdoors Achieving Leadership Skills or GOALS is a summer soccer league hosted by the International Rescue Committee for refugee girls living in San Diego. Video by Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project, Summer 2018: Bethlehem Artrie, Lucy Ellison, Christina Arias, and Trevonce Espiritu. Instructors: Joshua Salaises and Brian Jenkins.
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How the Fall of Saigon Made City Heights a Refugee Hub
Some 50,000 Vietnamese refugees passed through Camp Pendleton in the months following the fall of Saigon. The size and duration of the crisis caused a shift in the way the United States approached resettlement, and paved the path for Burmese, East African and Iraqi refugees arriving in San Diego today. Media Arts Center videographer Brian…
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The Bahati Mamas: Seeds for Change
The Bahati Mamas, (front to back), Sitey Mbere, Hawa Ahamed and Maganey Ramazani, are transporting soil to a field at the Tierra Miguel farm in Escondido to prepare for the summer season. | Photo Credit: Famo Musa, The AjA Project By Binti Musa Binti Musa is a high school student and member of The AjA…
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Local Farmers Help San Diegans Connect to Their Roots Through Agriculture
Robin Taylor of Suzie’s Farm and Ralph Achenbach of the International Rescue Committee in San Diego talk with KPBS Evening Edition host Peggy Pico about community-supported agriculture. By Megan Burke, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico Eating locally grown produce is more than a trend in San Diego. For many, it has become a way of…
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Sequestration Hits San Diego Refugee Resettlement Agencies
Habibo, a Somali refugee, writes: “The first day I came to U.S.A. was hard for me. Leave my sister in Kenya. My friends. Airplane. Leaving them forever. Excited We came in San Diego and I was scared. The first day school was scary because I did not see white people before.” | Photo Credit: Habibo,…