Local refugee is providing help to other refugees in Tulsa

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TULSA, Okla. — Catholic Charities announced this week 800 Afghan refugees volition beryllium coming to Tulsa successful the coming weeks.

The YWCA is among respective organizations successful the Tulsa country that works intimately with refugees.

“Typically what our relation is, is to supply ongoing enactment aft families person arrived successful Tulsa, including helping uncovering archetypal employment, English classes, ineligible services...interpretation and translation services,” Diane Eason Contreras, YWCA manager of migrant and exile services said.

Huda Abdulhameed archetypal started moving straight with refugees arsenic a YWCA exile caseworker.

She helped them find employment and connected them to societal and wellness services.

It was thing she could straight subordinate to.

“My household utilized to enactment arsenic a contractor with the U.S. subject backmost successful my state truthful they got threatened from militia from 2007 truthful they applied arsenic a refugee,” Abdulhameed said.

Abdulhameed and her 3 daughters are Iraqi refugees. They arrived successful the United States successful 2014. She said leaving the lone beingness she knew was not easy.

“I cried respective years, if I’m doing the close thing, the incorrect thing, I was struggling to find myself, to find my identity,” Abdulhameed said.

When she archetypal arrived successful the U.S., Abdulhameed thought she could commencement moving close away, but was faced with different challenge.

“Second Challenge was the connection barrier,” she said.

Although she has a masters of nursing grade from her state of origin, she could not signifier her assemblage due to the fact that she needed to larn English, which she managed to bash successful 5 months.

Now, she's the mentation and translation services programme manager for the YWCA and helps link refugees with mentation services.

“The time I moved present I could archer it was a precise antithetic authorities and everybody was affable with maine and with my girls,” she said.

Her enactment is preparing to supply resources to the 800 Afghan refugees coming to Tulsa.

She said she's hoping to connection them the lukewarm invited she erstwhile received.

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