Hundreds of refugees celebrated Thanksgiving last weekend outside Washington, D.C., at the Ethiopian Community Development Council, a refugee resettlement agency. thuanelston writes for usatodayopinion:
How did an Ethiopian community nonprofit come to help refugees from Afghanistan, Congo, Eritrea, El Salvador and Ukraine?
that partner with the United Nations. Since last year, the nonprofit has helped nearly 1,600 refugees begin new lives in Northern Virginia, 95% of them Afghans.After Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021 when the United States withdrew our military from Afghanistan, my husband wanted to help with the humanitarian crisis. As an editor with a defense contractor, Bob is close with his Afghan American colleagues and friends. Including them in our lives has only enriched our family.
"After two years of hibernation, all of a sudden we were back," she said. "The desire for the people to come out, to see people, to be around people" was a big draw. "It's our own Thanksgiving," said Alexandra Hernandez-Pardo, the agency's resource development manager."It's what an international community Thanksgiving looks like.""It's the one place where we're not going to talk about religion, we're not going to talk about politics, we're not going to talk about ethnicity.
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