Remembering the refugee crisis
In this edition of Saa Nasta learn about how a nonprofit founder and an author are keeping the conversation about the refugee crisis in the forefront of their work.
Emina Ferizovic creates nonprofit food pantry and community center for those in need
Just three years ago, Emina Ferizovic opened the nonprofit J&E Community Relief, a food pantry and community center, that hopes to help people get back on their feet.
She came to the U.S. with her family from Bosnia as a refugee in 1996.
Ferizovic says, “I always had a strong sense of having to give back to this community because it gave me so much at that time. So finally, when I was able, at the age of 32 to open my own nonprofit organization to help and give this community back, that’s exactly what I did,” she says.
Now she’s looking for ways to keep the nonprofit afloat, after nearly two years through the pandemic, with the help of new donors and volunteers.
This story is a part of the Communities of Hope series featuring people from communities of color and how they preserved through the pandemic, only on WDET 101.9 FM.
Saa Nasta founder Nargis Rahman guest-hosts National Writer Series event with author Omar El Akkad
This week Nargis Rahman guest-hosted an interview for the National Writers Series, featuring author and journalist Omar El Akkad, who wrote the award-winning book, “What Strange Paradise,” written from the perspective of two children experiencing the refugee crisis from opposite spectrums.
El Akkad recently won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize, a prestigious Canadian award granted for literary work. His book, “American War,” was a bestseller translated into 13 languages.
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