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Canopy Resettles Refugees Despite Federal Obstacles

J. Froelich
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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.

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.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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