Sentences with phrase «refugee center»

The creator of a low - cost, Linux - based computer that retails for $ 169 has donated more than 400 computers to refugee centers in three camps in Jordan, including Zaatari, Azraq, and Red Crescent.

In the wake of those closures, Louisiana State University (LSU), which lies 100 kilometers to the northwest of New Orleans, has become an academic refugee center, accepting students and staff left in the lurch by Hurricane Katrina.

There was a group of 18 families that were still living in a refugee center.

I've worked full - time at a homeless shelter and now at a refugee center, and BY FAR the largest percentage of volunteers comes from under - 30's.

«[The Christians] ask the question: What happens when the devout Muslim refugees leave the refugee center, must we continue hiding ourselves as Christians in the future in this country?»

Elected as Calvin's successor, he continued to make Geneva a refugee center for Protestants.

The refugee center received two separate grants.

The travel ban hasn't made it easy on the certainty for refugee centers, which have had to close during the initial executive order.

State lawmakers are pushing for the budget to include funding for refugee centers that could be lost once the refugee ban is in effect.

(For obscure languages, you can sometimes find a refugee center or other public agency that can help).

Inspired by true stories she heard at a refugee center in Italy, author and illustrator Francesca Sanna tells the story of a mother and her two children, who face their fear of the unknown with a sense of hope.

When she joins a pen pal program, she is paired with Nawra, a Sudanese girl her age who lives in a refugee center and can neither read nor write — she dictates her letters to an aid worker.

Before her career in radio, Jenny worked as a literacy teacher at a refugee center in Alberta, Canada.

The new program seems to need UA more than UA needs Copa — so it would be shocking to see it become the refugee center for disaffected UA MP folks.

Prior to law school, Sophia worked in South Africa at a refugee center teaching English as a second language to French speaking refugees.