Christopher Coen
Melissa Sogard
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The US State Department has contracted with Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to resettle refugees to Wichita, Kansas. Episcopal Wichita Area Refugee Ministry will act as the subcontractor for EMM. A late announcement says that the groups will begin in the next few weeks, and will resettle up to 180 refugees a year. An article in The Wichita Eagle article talks discusses the plan:
Two groups that help rescue foreigners from war and oppression say they are arranging what they say will be the most significant refugee resettlement in Wichita since hundreds were resettled here from southeast Asia 30 years ago.
The Episcopal Wichita Area Refugee Ministry and the Wichita office of the International Rescue Committee say that refugees from Myanmar — also called Burma — Somalia, Bhutan, Iraq, Eritrea and other nations will begin arriving in the next few weeks.
The groups say as many as 180 refugees a year could come in for several years; the first few individuals and families will arrive in the next few weeks. The Episcopal group says it will bring in as many as 35 Burmese a year; the International Rescue Committee says it could bring in as many as 150 from other countries…
…The Rt. Rev. Dean Wolfe, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas, and Chryle Nofsinger-Wiens, executive director of the International Rescue Committee, were scheduled to talk publicly Saturday about the new refugees and how they plan to get them settled in Wichita… Read more here
