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DC café serves up path to success for refugees
Inside Emma’s Torch, customers will find steaming hot coffee — and a fresh start for the folks who work there. The Brookland café employs refugees, who take English classes and learn job skills while earning a paycheck. “It’s difficult for new language, new life, new friends, no have friends, no have family,” said Alex Rago, an employee at Emma’s...
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Emma's Torch trains refugees for culinary industry
A Brookland café employs refugees, who take English classes and learn job skills while earning a paycheck. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.
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Sudanese family hopes a new refugee program will bring them back together in America
A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a Sudanese family hope of reuniting in Texas.
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Hundreds of refugees enjoy first Thanksgiving dinner in Silver Spring
Dozens of families enjoyed their first ever Thanksgiving meals in Silver Spring on Sunday evening as part of an effort to bring refugees and their new communities closer together.
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Hundreds of refugees enjoy first Thanksgiving dinner in Silver Spring
On Sunday evening, dozens of families shared their first ever Thanksgiving meals. It’s part of an effort to bring refugees closer together with their new communities. News4’s Mauricio Casillas has more on the important tradition.
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A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.
On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia. One week later, the boat vanished. Those aboard the doomed vessel were among at least 348 Rohingya who died or went missing while attempting to cross the Bay of Bengal or Andaman Sea last year.
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The Message Behind the Blue Ribbons Some Celebrities Wore at the Oscars
Small and subtle, the blue ribbons worn by many celebrities at the Oscars nonetheless had an important message: support refugees.
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Support for Ukrainian Refugees Dropping, Especially Among Democrats
The U.S./Mexico border may get the most attention, but a record number of refugees and asylum-seekers are looking to come to the United States because of dangerous situations all over the world.
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Angelina Jolie Leaves Role as UN Refugee Agency Envoy After Two Decades
In a statement, the actor and humanitarian said she felt it was time “to work differently” by directly engaging with refugees and local organizations.