Refugees and Immigrants: Challenges in the U.S.A.
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part of the Flying Squirrel's STOP MASS INCARCERATION programming...
Title: Refugees and Immigrants: Challenges in the U.S.A.
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2014
Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1482145102040075/
Description: A life of an immigrant in America, especially that of a refugee, can be very challenging during his/her first few months of their stay in the new home. Almost always, refugees and immigrants come to America in search of a new life, a life free from turmoil and hardships. Many of them have gone through untold sufferings in their motherland, ranging from war trauma, poverty, persecution and rape.
Upon arrival to the new home, they expect that their struggles have been left behind in their native countries. But as soon as they arrive, they realize that there is a new set of challenges waiting for them, such as securing a job, finding a place to live, buying food, and enrolling their children in school.
As a result of the aforementioned challenges, a few of our founding members, who also came through the refugee system and experienced these challenges firsthand, found it fit to start Africans Organization United in an effort to try to ease some of these challenges.
AUO strives at providing better information to immigrants and refugees, in particular about life in the United Statetheir legal rights, economic issues, emotional isolation caused by the stress, becoming a citizen and small business ownership, advocate policies aimed at promoting economic self-reliance and increasing the quality of life of refugees.
In addition, one of our main purposes is to provide for the advancement of the welfare of immigrants and refugees who reside in the Greater Rochester, New York area through networking, mentoring, education and training, so that there is a positive environment for promotion of African culture, practicing of African traditions and maintenance of high ethical standards among its members.
For more information on this special programming, check out: thesquirrel.org/node/1240
