In the news | November 25, 2022

No Religion, No Politics, Just Community: How Refugees Learn to Celebrate Thanksgiving

Volunteers and Afghan, Congolese, Eritrean, Salvadoran and Ukrainian refugees celebrate Thanksgiving on Nov. 20, 2022, at the Ethiopian Community Development Council in Arlington, Va. (Bob Elston)

USA Today covered ECDC’s Refugees’ First Thanksgiving event which took place in Arlington, Virginia.

‘We bring people all together, and this magic happens when people are around food that all of a sudden they sort of discover that they have so much more in common with each other.’ -Sara Zullo, Director of ECDC African Community Center DC Metro

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