“With the recording equipment that the family acquired using the IDA savings money, Mr. Pray is now working to market his services for community entertainment, recording remixes of his old music, being hired to record community events, composing new songs, and creating a program for the summer youth music lesson. At the moment, he is working full-time while marketing his business.
By Dahlia Guajardo At 4pm on Friday, October 21 you are invited to join the Alliance for African Assistance in their co-presentation of a free screening of Where Are You Taking Me?, a documentary by Kimi Takesu that captures the vibrant life and culture of everyday Ugandans. The documentary, a film that Variety critic [...]
This article appeared in voiceofsandiego.org, written by Kelly Bennet. For Them, the Ruined Story Isn’t Just Onstage by Kelly Bennett A few weeks ago, Womaniala Gerald, who works with African refugees, called family after family on his list of clients, rounding up women and men to hit the road from City Heights for [...]
Getting schooled in financial literacy Recently arrived youth from around the world get lessons in money management By Christopher Cadelago, UNION-TRIBUNE Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 9:25 a.m. BALBOA PARK — Medina Andar lived in Pakistan, Iran and Azerbaijan before settling into City Heights as a 19-year-old refugee. Although Andar spoke Russian, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish [...]
A SILENT JOURNEY — PART I OF II Har Sin, a 24-year-old deaf refugee from Burma, never imagined he could convey those complex emotions only hinted at in his expressive eyes — about how he felt, what he feared, what his dreams were — to anyone but himself. Then he made a discovery. Har Sin, [...]
Ugandan refugee and his organization help others build new lives for themselves in the United States ‘God’s work’ By Ronald W. Powell STAFF WRITER March 27, 2008 Like many energetic 4-year-olds in Southern California, Emmanuel Otoo loves to hop aboard his skateboard and glide away, giggling all the while. Except he has no forearms and [...]
Moving stories: Walter Lam BBC World Service’s The World Today programme is asking migrants who have been successful in their adopted countries how they got to the top of their field. I truly believe this was a plan of God – he brought me here, and now I can see why When I came [...]
