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The Deli Man Who Turns Report Cards Into $100 Bills
Wail Alselwi, a Yemeni immigrant running a Staten Island deli, has given away hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash…
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17 Years in a Refugee Camp. Now He Runs Pittsburgh’s Front Door for New Arrivals.
Khara Timsina spent 17 years in a refugee camp after fleeing Bhutan. He co-founded BCAP, which now supports immigrant families…
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He Fled Vietnam by Boat at Age 7. Now He Trains First Responders to Handle Mental Health Crises.
Paul Hoang fled Vietnam by boat as a child. He founded Viet-CARE and has since trained over 1,000 professionals in…
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She Survived Pirates at Sea. Now She Helps Vietnamese Families Break Cycles of Harm.
Quyen Vuong fled Vietnam by boat in 1981. She now runs ICAN, a Silicon Valley nonprofit offering parenting and child-abuse-prevention…
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A Somali Refugee Built a Soccer Club to Keep Young Refugees on the Field, Not the Streets
Abdi Iftin arrived in Utah as a Somali refugee and built Future FC, a soccer club and support network for…
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The Refugee-Led Kitchen Turning Recipes Into New Careers
Meymuna Hussein-Cattan fled East Africa as a refugee. Her Tiyya Foundation now runs a free culinary workshop that’s trained more…
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Ukrainian Refugees Bring a Taste of Home to Midland, Michigan
Sergey Pokanevych and Natalia Iakovleva fled the war in Ukraine and opened a scratch-bakery in Midland, Michigan that’s become a…
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From a Refugee Camp in Turkey to a Beloved Food Cart on Vashon Island
Safa Jneidi and Iyad Alati fled Syria and rebuilt their lives on Vashon Island, turning a halal food cart into…
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A Refugee Doctor Built the Clinic His Younger Self Needed
Binh Phung arrived as a nine-year-old refugee from Vietnam. Today he’s a pediatrician running a free clinic in Tulsa for…