Issue 6 July 2014
Refugee Elder Program Summer activities
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Our combined Refugee Youth and Elder Art Show was such a successful event! Among displays from younger generations, plenty of drawings and crafts our Elders were working on during the past half year have been exhibited, displaying their enthusiasm to express themselves in multiple ways. Visitors, family members and staff alike enjoyed the colorful expressions! With classes starting again, we had diverse Community speakers and a team from Francis of Assisi school students visiting and engaging the Elders in beautiful ways. The hot temperatures have not kept our Elders from exercising their way into classes, and at the End of the month we had a nice birthday celebration for many of our July jubilants. While at that, we also celebrated two newborns among our teacher team!
1140 Cherokee Rd (Highland United Methodist Church) Program Coordinator: Abby Webb
Refugee Youth And Elder Art Show
Birthdays July Exercises with Lettie & St. Francis of Assisi middle school students
New Volunteers
Community Speakers Sophie Maier & Jarrot
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Tues & Thurs: 10.00 am-12. 00 pm Exercises begin 9.30 am Early birds are welcome as early as 8.30 am !!
Teacher News In this issue Refugee Youth and Elder Art Show
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Community Speakers Sophie Maier, Iroquois Library & Jarrot, Special Medical Department, KRM
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School students
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Volunteers & new students
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Teacher news & Birthday celebrations
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Social Media
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Youth and Elder Art Show
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Above: Nzanzabandi (DR Congo) with art therapist Joyce and Musa (Sudan) displaying their creations Right: Nzanzabandi (DR Congo) makes sure he displays the other piece as well
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Youth and Elder Art Show Francisco (Cuba) preferred a single photo-op, while Miralia (Cuba) is showing confidently her art pieces (below)
Emma (Cuba) enjoying herself in front of her drawing
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Youth and Elder Art Show
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Wafiqa (Iraq) and her beautiful pieces
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Youth and Elder Art Show
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Husham & wife (Iraq) with Elder program longtime volunteer Beth, Nejmeh Clair (Jordan) and Bhadri (Bhutan)
Abdulrazzaq, Husham (Iraq) with Joyce (Catholic Charities) and Husham’s wife
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Youth and Elder Art Show Left: See Lah (Karen state) with one of her drawings
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Right: Pae Dah (Karen state) with her canvas and with art therapist Joyce, enjoying the attention for her creation
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Youth and Elder Art Show
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Ler Hit (Karen state) with two of his creations and below with Nana Ogden, who is regularly volunteering and helping her aunt, art therapist Joyce Ogden, in guiding and assisting the Elders during art sessions
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Youth and Elder Art Show
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Rhagu (Bhutan) enjoys posing with his drawing
Below: Bhutanese Shree, Gobinda, Man, Rhagu, Nara & Hari (with Musa (Sudan) joined by a beautiful young lady from the Youth Program
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Youth and Elder Art Show
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Above: Bhutanese Nara & Hari in front of some creations with Nara displaying one of his own as well Left: another piece from Nara (Bhutan)
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Below: Bhutanese Nara, Gobinda, Rhagu, Shree & Man enjoy having their pictures taken
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Community speakers The Karen group with interpreter Moo Ra Pa waiting for the speakers to begin!
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Karen interpreter Moo Ra Pa
Sabeeh and Joseph (Iraq) with Arabic interpreter Dalia and Francis of Assisi middle school students 10
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Community speakers The Bhutanese group with interpreter Prem waiting as well for the speakers to start
Musa (Sudan) and interpreter Fawia Suliman, Stacey (Catholic Charities)
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Cuban group and interpreter/teacher Michaela with Francis of Assisi students
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Community speakers
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Community speakers Teacher Annie with John (Iraq) and interpreter Fawia Suliman with Musa (Sudan) and lovely Francis of Assisi students
UofL intern Yongqian in grinning competition on with Tara (Bhutan)
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Community speakers
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In her unique and delightful way, Sophie Maier from Iroquois Library presented skillfully the different services offered for free at the library
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Community speakers
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Sophie made it a point to encourage Elders in engaging in their community and preserving their ethnic traditions by sharing and participating—She also assisted students with enrollment and any questions they had
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Community speakers While Stacey (Catholic Charities) is engaged in conversation, Nzanzibandi (DR Congo) enjoys watching his interpreter Alexis finishing his snack!
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The Francis of Assisi team, joined by interpreter Alexis, did again a fabulous job in preparing the snack area for a short break
The joy of a job well done !
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Community speakers
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After break, Jarrot (KRM medical department) spoke about digestive issues and how to engage in healthy eating habits to avoid such.
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Community speakers
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Jarrot employed visual help in order to help students understand causes and effects of certain foods and eating behaviors
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School and exercises
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Chris (Catholic Charities) rounding up interested participants for the exercise preceding classes
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School and exercises
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High blood pressure is not an issue here!!!!
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School and exercises
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Nothing wrong with having fun while getting those limbs moving!
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School and exercises
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Exercises never cease and the Francis of Assisi team stepped right in and participated at once!
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School and ESL practice
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After engaging with Francis of Assisi students, Sabeeh (Iraq) overcame his initial hesitation and plunged right into vocabulary exercises—everyone seemed to have plenty of fun with it!
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School and Citizenship studies
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Ahmed (Iraq) passionate ly explaining his view
Dharmanan da in reading practice
Jolyanna verifying with Luke her answers.
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School and Citizenship studies
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While Kamalapati (Bhutan) was assisted with writing practice, Man was having a ball watching their picture taken!
Salma (Iraq) is a very diligent student and she is listening intently to make sure she understands correctly the question presented!
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School A lot of conversation and learning was already going on before classes started thanks to our various and gracious Francis of Assisi school students!
The Francis of Assisi TEAM did again a fabulous job preparing and arranging skillfully the snacks for break! THANK YOU, guys!
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School Final pictures with our amazing and inspiring Francis of Assisi School students!
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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School
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New Students
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Bertha (Cuba), has been added to Sarah’s class! WELCOME, BERTHA!
Jose (Cuba), Bertha’s husband, is participating in Sarah’s class as well! WELCOME, JOSE!
Julio and Walfrido (Cuba), are also new students and attend Sarah’s class! WELCOME, JULIO AND WALFRIDO!
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Volunteers Recruited by Bro. Ward, Bro. Harry has been so dedicated in helping our students understand and apply study material in teacher Annie’s class! THANK YOU, BRO. HARRY!
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Jim has been faithfully volunteering now for almost a year in teacher Julie’s class and assists students with various tasks! THANK YOU, JIM!
Erin has helped at the office with copying and scanning vital material for our classes! THANK YOU, ERIN!
Michelle graciously volunteered and got excited baking the big birthday cake for our students! THANK YOU, Michelle! 32
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News from our Teachers
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Sarah with her mom and brother holding tiny Asia
Former volunteer Jacinda and her husband Mike with Analyn
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Exercises with Lettie
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Lifting, stretching, pumping, nothing is left out and everything is engaged!
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Exercises with Lettie
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Pumping, lifting, nobody wanted to stay behind!
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Exercises with Lettie
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Twist & Stretch, no effort is too small!
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Exercises with Lettie
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Birthdays July Wafiqa
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Iraq
Ahmed
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Joseph
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Birthdays July
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Cuba Zoilo, Jose P., Juan
Dharmananda
Bhutan
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Birthdays July
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Michelle’s cake with some of the flags representing our students!
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Volunteer Beth and teacher Annie are thrilled to see Dharmananda (Bhutan) happily blowing out the cake in representation of all celebrating!
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Issue 6 July 2014
Birthdays July
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Some of our birthday jubilants: Joseph, Ahmed, Sabeeh (Iraq), Dharmananda (Bhutan), Zoilo (Cuba), Abdulrazzaq (Iraq) and Jose (Cuba), with their flags and cards. Then came time to enjoy their birthday cake piece.
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Birthdays July
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Michelle, our lovely cake sponsor, assisting clients with tasting those delicious pieces. Above, Beth, our long-time and faithfully dedicated volunteer in Sarah’s class, is watching the humdrum around
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Birthdays July Jose and Zoilo showing off their cards!
Beth was wondering where Wafiqa and Juan were...
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