Their New World. Rachel Gottlieb.
by Gottlieb, Rachel; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 4Environment. Publisher: Hartford Courant, 2004ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Culture shock | Immigrant children | Immigrants -- Attitudes | Refugee children | Refugees -- Liberian | Refugees -- SomaliDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Some of the food is looking a little past its prime at the Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services food pantry on Market Street in Hartford. Some boxes of pasta are ragged, many tomatoes and bananas are well past ripe, some cans badly dented. But Sister Dorothy Strelchun is handing it out to the Somali and Liberian refugees like it's manna from heaven. And the refugees accept it like the treasure it is. Sometimes, she says, they even horde it--keeping pounds and pounds of pasta or rice under their beds or in a closet. Perspective is everything." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article describes the experiences of Liberian and Somali refugees resettling in Hartford, Connecticut.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Their New World, Dec. 26, 2004; pp. A1+.
"Some of the food is looking a little past its prime at the Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services food pantry on Market Street in Hartford. Some boxes of pasta are ragged, many tomatoes and bananas are well past ripe, some cans badly dented. But Sister Dorothy Strelchun is handing it out to the Somali and Liberian refugees like it's manna from heaven. And the refugees accept it like the treasure it is. Sometimes, she says, they even horde it--keeping pounds and pounds of pasta or rice under their beds or in a closet. Perspective is everything." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article describes the experiences of Liberian and Somali refugees resettling in Hartford, Connecticut.
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