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AEO Policy Series - Microenterprise for Refugees
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AEO's Kevin Kelly sat down with Larry Laverentz, General Dynamics Information Technology Contractor for the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), and Kasra Movahedi, ORR grantee and Community and Economic Development Manager at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in San Diego, CA. Mr. Laverentz discusses ORR's Refugee Rural Initiative, which aims to open up opportunities for refugees, often from agrarian backgrounds, to achieve self-sufficiency through agriculture. Mr. Movahedi shares about IRC's work with ORR as a grantee and about IRC's holistic approach to working with microenterprise and refugees by tying together projects such as urban farm initiatives, nutrition and cooking classes and farm to school programs, where school food will be purchased from local farms.
To learn more about AEO's policy priorities, go to http://www.microenterpriseworks.org/index.asp?bid=59
To learn more about ORR, go to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/
To learn more about the International Rescue Committee, go to http://www.theirc.org/
To listen to this podcast, click here.
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To learn more about AEO's policy priorities, go to http://www.microenterpriseworks.org/index.asp?bid=59
To learn more about ORR, go to http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/
To learn more about the International Rescue Committee, go to http://www.theirc.org/
To listen to this podcast, click here.
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