Wisconsin
Work to help Afghan refugees in Wisconsin continues year post-evacuation
WISCONSIN— This week marks one yr for the reason that U.S. and worldwide allies left Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the nation. But the work to assist settle Afghan refugees all through Wisconsin continues.
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“Virtually everyone that we all know of needed to go away folks behind,” Tami McLaughlin, director of World Aid Fox Valley, mentioned. “It is an ideal despair and it is an ideal burden, and it is one thing that is on their hearts and their minds constantly.”
Of the practically 13,000 preliminary Afghan refugees who stayed at Fort McCoy in Monroe County, roughly 400 remained in Wisconsin; the remaining resettled throughout the nation.
“We’ve welcomed a complete of 183 Afghans from the ‘Operation: Allies Welcome’initiatives [to the Fox Valley],” McLaughlin added. “Most are in place, they’re settled, they’ve properties, they’ve jobs— it was an effort that we had been very proud to be part of.”
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