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Brattleboro’s unsung heroes: our new refugee neighbors

Vermont’s refugees are helping all of us as a community. They are eager to work, sharing their skills, and planning how to rebuild their careers here.

The Ethiopian Community Development Council is America's only resettlement agency that is community-based and refugee-led. We at ECDC believe that refugee resettlement works only when the entire community is involved and when refugees themselves are in the lead.

A year ago, none of us could have imagined that the emergency evacuation of Kabul would have brought us together as a community to welcome 100 new refugees to southern Vermont.

We can be extremely proud of everything that we have been able to achieve together. We created a new organization, a new school, a new community center, a new Islamic prayer space (the first in southern Vermont!).

After just a few months with us, our new Afghan neighbors are already contributing so much to our communities because of the extraordinary level of support and community engagement here.

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