Good News Notes: “An Iowa non-profit is ready to shelter Afghan refuges. The Catherine McAuley Center in Cedar Rapids is the only refugee and immigrant service provider in Eastern Iowa. No Afghan immigrants have reached out to the center, but officials with the center told Iowa’s News Now they will accept any refugees. Afghanistan natives are trying…
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Confronting a Crisis in Ethiopia, A Brand-New Nonprofit Finds Its Feet
Good News Notes: “Dr. Habteab Feseha, an Eritrean-American physician based in Arizona, said he’d never dreamed that he’d be organizing aid to a conflict zone. For years, he’d watched fellow Eritreans escaping military service, economic hardship, or persecution settle in other countries, including Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. (Feseha’s organization, the Eri Yiakl Foundation,…