Some refugees who moved here because of the short waitlist for housing aid have been unable to transfer their vouchers elsewhere as quickly as they had hoped Ontario, Ore., was never really supposed to be home – at least not for many of the city’s recentl ...
26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
Ekram Ahmed continues to embrace a life of independence in the face of adversity Ekram Ahmed spent many years living in fear and with a ferocious sense of self. Her parents lived in Sudan before she was born, but a military coup led by Omar al-Bashir in ...
26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
Abdikadir Abdi helps a burgeoning Somali community in Ontario, Oregon Abdikadir Abdi’s childhood looked strikingly different from what his own children and the Somali refugee community’s children experience in the Pacific Northwest today. Abdi was born i ...
26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
'He loves America. The problem is the United States’ requirements are too hard.' It’s the first of the month, rent is due, and Sarmad Elias’ government benefits haven’t been deposited yet – another instance of paperwork gone wrong, he said. Sero ...
28 Sep 2018 - Emilly Prado
FINDING HOME | His journey took him from the countryside of El Salvador to a new and challenging world in Portland Waiting at an outdoor table in front of the small coffee house where Samuel Henriquez had agreed to meet me, I looked up to see a short, sto ...
5 Jun 2017 - Robin Schauffler