‘I Saw The Suffering In People’s Faces: Sacramento Man Finds Strollers For War-Torn Refugees

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — One antheral has made it his ngo to find, and refurbish, strollers and different necessities for families fleeing war-torn Afghanistan and coming to Sacramento. Now, the request is greater than ever.

Jon Ursino is connected a ngo to marque definite Afghanistan families coming to Sacramento person the other assistance they need.

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“I saw the suffering successful people’s faces,” said Ursino.

He and his woman started this enactment successful 2015, erstwhile they recognized conscionable however galore Iraq and Afghanistan war-torn families were arriving successful Sacramento arsenic their harmless haven.

“We saw the anxiety, the PTSD, and the effects of warfare connected people’s faces,” Ursino recalls.

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Ursino and his woman acceptable up a radical called Community Alliance For Refugees with a ngo to scour societal media and thrift stores for lightly utilized strollers and blankets, and past present them to the resettlement bureau Lao Family Community Development.

“It’s been a truly hectic clip for us,” said Lao Family CEO Kathy Chao Rothberg.

The Lao Family bureau helps families find housing, hunt for work, and registry children for school. Rothberg says that these strollers for the children bring smiles to their faces.

“It means the satellite to the families,” said Rothberg. “We felt similar we had to assistance radical find immoderate mode to modulation into our society, but besides to find immoderate happiness.”

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As much Afghan families arrive, the hunt for strollers volition propulsion on.

Steve Large