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Meet Flor: IWP Graduate Finds Belonging and Supports Other Immigrants

September 22, 2021 By The Welcoming Center In Civic Engagement, Community Engagement, Participant Profiles, Wellness No Comments

Imagine saying goodbye to family and friends, a career you have built for years, and your home that you love. It is no easy feat. But so many immigrants do so every single day, just so that they can make a better life for themselves and their families. Flor took a very similar journey to [...]

Meet Aminata: ILI and IPP Graduate Overcomes Barriers to Find Success

September 22, 2021 By The Welcoming Center In Civic Engagement, Community Engagement, Participant Profiles, Workforce Development No Comments

Aminata moved to the United States in July 2017 to join her husband who had moved to New York a few months before her. As a native French speaker who moved to Montreal, Canada for her university education from her home country of Guinea, Aminata spoke little English when she arrived in the United States. [...]

Meet Amel: ILI and IPP Graduate Builds a Community to Give Back

September 22, 2021 By The Welcoming Center In Civic Engagement, Community Engagement, Participant Profiles, Workforce Development No Comments

Amel moved to Philadelphia in July 2015 from Algeria on The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program). She has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and speaks four different languages—Berber, Arabic, French, and English. In Algeria, she was working as a pharmacy technician. When she arrived in Philadelphia, she took on a job as a finishing operator. [...]

Meet Coral Zayas: Immigrant Leadership Institute Graduate Gives Back

February 11, 2021 By The Welcoming Center In Civic Engagement, Events, Solas Awards No Comments

Coral moved to Philadelphia in 2018, after being accepted to a doctoral program at Temple University. It was tough leaving her life and her close-knit family in Puerto Rico, but she knew this was the best step for her career. In the years since moving to Philly, she has often questioned if the upward mobility [...]

I Am Just Where I Belong

June 11, 2019 By The Welcoming Center In Civic Engagement, Participant Voices No Comments

by Ben Goebel For as long as I can remember I always wanted to come to America. Maybe not to live here at first, but this country had always been on my mind since my uncle told me how great it was. I finally received my Green Card a couple months ago. I am not [...]

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