From Burma to the Bronx & Beyond, Part 4 |
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June 13th, 2007 - 11:11AM |
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'I feel like I am dreaming': When she was just 12 Mo Nom Tee Kham's family fled their native Burma to Thailand, where Mo Nom moved from an orphanage to a refugee camp and worked low paying jobs as an undocumented immigrant. With help from the International Rescue Committee, she and her family resettled in New York three years ago. Now she's studying on a merit scholarship at Dickinson College, where her favorite class is Education and Democracy. In the fourth installment of a new IRC podcast series, Mo Nom's family arrives in New York. Of her first week in the city, Mo Nom recalls feeling like she was dreaming, but by the second week she could already imagine building a life there. 'Wow--we finally have a home,' she says. 'we don't have to be scared anymore.' Posted By: theirc | Children & Youth, Refugees in the U.S. Permalink |
