San Juan Unified Hires Team To Support Refugees: ‘They Are Mentally Affected’

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The Sacramento country is location to the largest fig of Afghan refugees nationwide. That’s wherefore the San Juan Unified School District has hired a squad to assistance migrant students and their families succeed.

Safiullah Jailani immigrated from Afghanistan successful 2017 due to the fact that helium was acrophobic for his family’s safety.

“Every time we were waiting for kidnapping and hijacking-bomb blast,” helium said.

His bosom goes retired to the thousands of Afghan refugees successful the Sacramento country who are waiting for what happens next.

“They are mentally affected,” helium said.

Jailani said helium is thankful his household was capable to instrumentality vantage of a programme successful San Juan Unified that welcomes Afghan students and their families.

More than fractional of the pupil colonisation determination is Afghan.

“We enactment the students academically, socially, emotionally, and besides we enactment the families,” a territory idiosyncratic said.

Through the assistance of authorities grants, San Juan offers 22 programs, including Saturday classes which are peculiarly fashionable due to the fact that parents tin attend.

There’s besides a shot programme for students. The extremity is to promote squad gathering and connection relationship and support, according to Sayed Mansoor, who works one-on-one with families.

“We should observe their confidentiality, make spot for the narration and we should beryllium precise positive,” Mansoor said.

With this help, Jailani’s 2 younger boys were capable to postgraduate from Starr King Elementary.

“Their GPA accrued to implicit 4.0, that was a large happiness for me,” helium said.

And his oldest got accepted astatine UC Berkeley. He is already trying to assistance link refugees with San Juan’s program. He gets affectional erstwhile helium thinks astir the planetary situation and the greater need.

“They are physically besides affected by the situation. And emotionally, they request much help,” Jailani said.

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This twelvemonth alone, the territory has 1,700 Afghan refugees enrolled.