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Refugee Stories - Osman Muse Muganga, San Diego

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October 12th, 2005 - 05:06PM

Refugee Stories
Photo: Joseph Darrough/International Rescue Committee

“My daughter Binty sleeps under her sister’s bed. She was born in the refugee camp and for ten years she slept in a hole dug in the sand to keep cool in the heat. She misses her hole in the sand – she’s not comfortable in her soft bed. She doesn’t know this is not normal.” - Osman Muse Muganga, one of 300 Somali Bantu refugees who have resettled in California. San Diego Refugee Stories Photo Essay


Posted By: Kathleen Sands | Refugees in the U.S.
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