Tag: Refugee
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San Diego Advocate Earns Fellowship, Grant Funds For Work Supporting Immigrants
Nonprofit founder Ramla Sahid earned a fellowship from a California foundation that included a $250,000 grant.
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Health Center Trains, Recruits Doctors To Serve Poor Amid Growing Shortage
A clinic in San Diego’s Logan Heights neighborhood provides numerous health and support services with a commitment to serving uninsured and low-income residents.
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Inside the Asylum Process That Could Bring More Iraqis to San Diego County
Marchers hold up crosses and signs calling for asylum for Iraqi Christians, on the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Main Street in El Cajon, Aug. 19, 2014. | Photo Credit: Susan Murphy, KPBS By Megan Burks San Diego County is home to about 80,000 Iraqis and it could begin to see more. Eight weeks ago,…
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For Refugee Doctors, Journey Back to Practicing Medicine Is the Longest
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Najwan Al Ani sits in her El Cajon apartment and flips through a tattered study guide for the first phase of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. She used the workbook to study for and pass the test in 2011, and now it’s…
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Student Aims to Educate Deaf in East Africa
By Dwane Brown Many of us tend to take speaking and hearing for granted, until we lose the ability to do either. So, imagine the challenge of pitching a business idea in sign language. That’s what the first prize winner of the University of San Diego’s Social Innovation Challenge did. USD is a far cry…