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Birgitta Schomaker's Blog – February 2018 Archive (1)
What makes us human? Keeping an open mind towards integration of refugees
Marlou and I gathered with a diverse group of volunteers and employees of a housing corporation to kick off our project "Common Ground" in a new neighborhood in Amsterdam.
In one street of this neighborbood, one out of three households came to the Netherlands recently as refugees. They obtained a temporary residence permit and the local government provided housing to them. They come from Nigeria, Libia, China, Eritrea,…
Added by Birgitta Schomaker on February 4, 2018 at 3:30pm — No Comments
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