Featured Articles: Issue Norse Code Singin’ in the Rain II CRIS Women’s History Columbus Academy MS Friday, March 16
[email protected] CRIS- Community, Refugee, & Immigration Services Angie Plumer of CRIS urges for compassion By MIYA TIWARI AND CAROLYN VAZIRI CRIS, or Columbus Ref- of migrants permitted into to embark into adulthood, ugee & Immigration Ser- our country to 45,000. This Tara requested relocation vices, started in a garage is why organizations like to the United States, and in in 2003. CRIS was found- CRIS are so important; 2009, he would be accept- Photo courtesy of Michelle Faciana ed to assist refugees from they help new Americans ed. Sowdo, like Tara, was Laos, who were forced to entering our country feel driven out of her home fee their country in the like they are appreciated country, but in different 1990s. Waves of refugees and acknowledged, even if circumstances, for she Singin’ in the Rain began to enter our na- on a national stage, it may was a female reporter. She tion during this time, and not seem that way. was raised in Somalia, and volunteers at CRIS want- Among the refugees that by the age of 3, she had Recap ed to help. Today, CRIS CRIS has helped to resettle, learned the fundamentals has proved that powerful we were able to hear the of responsibility within By KATE FORNSHELL AND KATIE WU impacts can originate from stories of Tara, from Nepal, her village; her job was The great glory of the really good tappers, and humble beginnings. As of and Sowdo, from Somalia.