Word: argaw
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...People think--oh, they're poor, we should help," Argaw says. "But there is nothing that prepares me, when I go deep inside, to understand the life of the woman who was married when she was 15, came here with her children and started working...
These issues extend into the schools. Argaw often has to call teachers and explain when a parent refuses to sign a report card. It is not that the parent is being uncooperative, Argaw says, it is just that she is embarrassed because she does not know how to write her own name...
...Ethiopian kids in seventh grade know as much as American second graders because the educational system is so terrible," Argaw says...
Desperate to make money to support their immediate family and family in refugee camps relying on them, Ethiopian immigrants are forced to work two or three jobs, Argaw says...
...newly-arrived Ethiopian immigrants, volunteering is a luxury they do not have, Argaw says...