A 25-YEAR OLD SOLVABLE PUZZLE
GUILFORD COUNTY HAS been North Carolina’s top refugee resettlement county for decades. With so much experience it should be a model to the rest of the state — but isn’t. We can plan for an organized, multicultural society or we can continue to believe in the current piecemeal approach, with all its attendant costs and problems. Below are projects I've undertaken with partners and allies to address a broken system.
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Effective health service and practices have to be based on evidence.
Refugees in our region are not provided sufficient information to make good choices.
The local refugee system has no road map, vision, or model, and no one takes responsibility.
We waste the valuable economic and cultural skills refugees bring with them to our area.
Multiculturalism at work Chef Jeff Bacon, executive director of the Triad Community Kitchen, collaborates with Roshan Shrestra, a GTCC culinary student, and Hari, a Nepali refugee, to create a new Nepali-American recipe as they prepare for DATS MashUp. During this event refugee women got the opportunity to work in a professional kitchen and learn employable skills.
