By Katelyn McIntyre/Arizona Sonora News It’s 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon in early fall and Amna Alquaisi heads into Sinbad’s Restaurant on Tucson’s University Blvd. for her daily dinner shift. The 52-year-old business owner was up early that day, carefully prepping the food that her son and her husband, Mulsmani, would cook all day….
Gilbert Mungaga y su esposa huyeron de Congo, África después de sentir que sus vidas peligraban. Cuatro años después, la familia Mugana ha encontrado un hogar en Tucson. “Dejamos mucha de nuestra familia y amigos atrás. Congo tiene un problema, siguen luchando todos los días. Congo no tiene nada de paz. Si hay paz por…
Arizona receives triple the number of refugees it did almost 20 years ago, creating both volume and diversity challenges for resettlement agencies. The Office of Refugee Resettlement has been fair in allotting funds to Arizona over the years, said Charles Shipman, Arizona’s state refugee coordinator. The key task has been adapting services to an increasingly…
