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In the ensuing months, affiliate staff and church volunteers guide the newcomers
to life in the U.S., acting as bridges to the wider community, to government
support services, language training, healthcare, childcare, education and
entry-level jobs. Affiliates, local faith communities and family members
extend the kind of hospitality that enables newly resettled refugees on this
leg of the journey to the place they can call home.
Sharif Amin, a Somali at Rocky Mountain Survivors' Center helping CWS affiliate Ecumenical Refugee Services, shows Somali Bantu refugee Jele Mugoya around the kitchen in Denver, CO.
Nurse Debbie Shwartz immunizes a client at the Friday
Free Clinic held by Refugee Services of Texas, a CWS-IRP affiliate in Dallas.
Photo: T. Munger/RST
Sharif Amin, a Somali at Rocky Mountain Survivors' Center helping CWS affiliate Ecumenical Refugee Services, shows Somali Bantu refugee Jele Mugoya around the kitchen in Denver, CO.
Photo: T. Abraham/CWS