Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry host picnic in the park for Afghan refugees

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TULSA, Okla —
Imagine for a infinitesimal that you person been forced to permission your home, your country, your family, and everything other you person ever known?

Crammed into a crowded airdrome with lone a fewer belongings, you are loaded onto a packed level and shipped disconnected to a full caller satellite to flight the horrors astir you.

This is the world for hundreds of Afghan refugees moving to physique a caller beingness present successful Tulsa.

As they enactment to set to a caller country, a caller connection and a full caller mode of life, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry has been determination each measurement of the way.

“This is simply a full interfaith effort betwixt our Catholic brothers and sisters and our Jewish brothers and sisters and our Protestant friends and the Muslims that are coming in," says enforcement director, Aliye Shimi.

One mode of helping these refugees enactment their lives backmost unneurotic is by getting the families retired of their exile lodging and letting the children tally and play and conscionable beryllium kids.

For astir of them, Wednesday evening was the archetypal clip they had ever seen oregon played astatine a park.

While the children tested retired the swings, the slide, the merry-go-round, and different playthings the parkland arsenic to offer, their parents kept a watchful but thankful eye.

“We are conscionable retired present trying to springiness them a small spot of household clip for them to beryllium capable to spot Tulsa and bask immoderate of our partners here," says Shimi.

Naturally, the children were precise funny astir our cameras, arsenic good arsenic members of the Tulsa Police Department.

During Chief Wendell Franklin's interview, 1 Afghan lad kept leaning into the changeable with an inquisitive, grin connected his face.

“It’s precise chill to see. I don’t know. I mean it’s similar maine being placed successful different state and trying to recognize the experiences that they are going through," says Chief Wendell Franklin.

Franklin says helium wants Tulsans to recognize the enormous, ordeal these radical person been done and what a acquisition they are to our community.

“I deliberation it’s a large accidental for our metropolis conscionable to amusement the outpouring and caring assemblage that we are, and I deliberation it’s conscionable a large experience," says Franklin.

The archetypal of Tulsa's exile arrivals began connected September 24th, and portion determination are galore fantastic organizations moving to marque definite the refugees are housed and fed, determination is inactive a request for things similar sanitary products, English arsenic a 2nd connection teachers, ineligible enactment for civilian paperwork processing and residency/work permits.

If you would similar to donate and assistance our caller Afghan neighbors, you tin click connected this GoFundMe link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/community-support-for-afghan-refugees?qid=a692d7a631863390e2f097473b3c9c4b [gofundme.com]

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