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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/about-us.html
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees helps refugees,
displaced communities, and stateless people find asylum. They also
work to protect their rights in their places of refuge.

World Relief
https://worldrelief.org/
World Relief is an organization that works with churches and
volunteers to provide assistance to people suffering from natural
disasters, poverty, oppression, violence, and displacement.

Index
Afwerki, Isaias, 52 colonization, 12, 22, 39, college, 37, 44, 50,
Alexander I (king), 205 52, 60, 75, 101, 115, 70–71, 82, 87,
American Sign 128, 230–231, 243 107, 136, 168, 177,
Language (ASL), coming to America 181–182, 203, 218,
156 story, 8 227, 235, 240, 248,
Assad, Bashar al-, communism, 75–76, 254
153–154 161, 172, 192, 206 English as a Second
Assad, Hafiz al-, 153 Cung, Nguyen Sinh. Language (ESL),
asylum, 6, 244, 251, 258 See Ho Chi Minh 81–82, 87, 177, 213,
authoritarianism, 39, 216, 239
129, 153 democracy, 13, 39, 76, English language
122, 153 development
Barre, Mohamed Siad, deportation, 6, 85, 115, (ELD), 28, 107
39 234, 240, 244, 252 Ferris High School,
Bashir, Omar Ahmad dictatorship, 13, 246 27–28, 43, 49, 125,
al-, 22–23, 25 drug cartels, 232, 136, 150–151, 227
237–238, 244 online learning, 28
Catholic Refugee ethnic cleansing, 28,
Services, 216 education, 13, 17, 23–24,
cerebral palsy, 36 26–27, 40, 43, 61–63, 206
citizenship, 7–8, 20, 53, 66, 69, 70, farming, 22, 24, 33, 52,
32, 66, 99, 113, 75, 86–87, 121, 54, 60, 76, 90, 94,
116, 122, 126, 150, 149–150, 169, 171, 115, 123, 135, 155,
160–161, 195, 249 182, 189, 199, 213 161, 170, 186–187,
civil rights, 39, 53, 101, Bhutanese Refugee 192, 214, 243,
161 Education Program 245–246
(BREP), 121

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