Stories of Hope

Through our Afghan Women’s English Language Learners (AWELL) program, we built a friendship with Sher Mohammad, his wife Nilofar, and their family. Sher Mohammad and his 13-year-old daughter were in Afghanistan visiting family during the takeover of the Taliban in August of 2021. His green card helped

Recently while one of our volunteer interpreters was translating for a newly-arrived Russian family, she told them of her arrival story. Victoria came to Minnesota from Ukraine 23 years ago through Arrive Ministries, formerly called World Relief Minnesota. She and her brother were paired with a volunteer

After Kango Ojha fell in love with Awhich and married in the church, they learned they were expecting a child; and soon after they were informed that due to Kango’s refugee status after fleeing Ethiopia, he was given permission to move to the United States in 2015.

After Naomi Downer read “After the Last Border” and attended our book event with the author, Jessica Goudeau, her family was inspired by the Syrian and Karen refugee families featured in the book. “Reading these stories about the challenges they faced, leaving everything they knew behind, including

I took my client to drop off an application for a job, and I had spoken with the Human Resources director already about her sitting down with my client for a quick conversation so she could start work. They had some conversation in English but then she

The month before the pandemic hit, Katie met Angella. It was an interesting time to start a new friendship. But these two were up for the challenge. Katie found out that Angella speaks French, and sought asylum in the U.S. from the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Katie