Canopy Resettles Refugees Despite Federal Obstacles

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published October 10, 2017 at 12:06 PM CDT

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Byaombe Mwenda, Seti Mwenda, Jules Mwenda, with father Watata Mwenda, and mother, Safi Nyasa Mwenda stand with Emily Crane Linn inside Canopy Northwest Arkansas headquarters in Fayetteville.

J. Froelich

Canopy Northwest Arkansas, a new nonprofit Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service agency headquartered in Fayetteville has partially met a first year refugee resettlement quota despite travel bans and limits set by the Trump administration. We visit with one of the families forced to flee their civil-war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo village, a journey recently profiled by The New York Times.