by Elaine Sanchez Wilson | Jun 14, 2019
Born in Santa Ana, CA, to two Muslim refugee survivors of the Cambodian genocide, Hatefas Yop wasn’t aware of her family’s use of public services when she was a young girl. After all, her peers in her elementary school all hailed from the local neighborhood, where...
by Diverse Elders | May 6, 2019
by Jaya Padmanabhan. This article originally appeared on The Bold Italic. “Do you have drumsticks?” my 85-year-old mother asks the cashier at the checkout counter at Madras Groceries in Sunnyvale, California. The woman points to a pile of long, narrow, cylindrical...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 18, 2019
by Rhonda Miller. This article originally appeared on WKU Public Radio. This is part one of a three part series; you can read part one here and read part two here. Feeding Kentucky, a nonprofit with a mission to alleviate hunger across the Bluegrass State, reports...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 9, 2019
by Rhonda Miller. This article originally appeared on WKU Public Radio. This is part two of a three part story; read part one here and read part three here. When elder refugees arrive in America they leave behind violence or religious persecution, as well as family,...
by Diverse Elders | Apr 5, 2019
by Rhonda Miller. This article originally appeared on WKU Public Radio. This is part one of a three part series; read part two here and read part three here. One of the biggest barriers refugees face when they arrive in America is learning English. A program in...
