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Losing the funding game: African refugee groups are scrapping for resources in San Diego. What does their situation say about immigrant communities and the foundation world? (To the Point).
When Dr. Melake Ghebrehiwet arrived in San Diego in 1975, he was one of six Eritreans in the county. Today, the Eritrean Community Services of San Diego, which he helped found in 1985, has a membership of 150 families and serves an Eritrean community of up to 700. But the group still operates as a volunteer-run mutual assistance association with very little staff capacity. They rent out a Methodist church to offer an Eritrean Orthodox service a few times a month, and managed to get a grant to rent an office space and hire a health consultant. That funding, however, recently ran out.
Eritrean Community Services is typical of African refugee and immigrant groups in ...
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