One week, multiple memories

One week, multiple memories

While others were traveling from around the country and  dealing with flights and rental cars, I travelled the long journey of 15 minutes from Downtown Phoenix to Tempe. Even though I am close to my school, friends, parents and a Chipotle I frequent, I have still...
What we don’t understand about refugees

What we don’t understand about refugees

  Gul Siddiqi is the Arizona area manager of Helping Hand for Relief and Development. Siddiqi believes the biggest misconception about refugees is that they want to leave their country, when in fact, they’d prefer to stay in their home country. Click below to...
Where Arizona’s refugees come from

Where Arizona’s refugees come from

Despite Arizona’s reputation as being unwelcoming to immigrants, it has become a popular destination for refugees. More than 3,100 refugees arrived in the state in 2015, according to the federal government’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. The map below...