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Article: First of Burundi refugees welcomed here.
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- Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2007
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Byline: Karina Gonzalez
Jul. 4--A group of area residents gathered Tuesday afternoon at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport to welcome the first refugee family from Tanzania to settle here.
One person held flowers. Another held a soccer ball. All were there to help with the arrival of a 38-year-old woman and her grandson. None of them, however, was sure how they would communicate.
"Nobody understood me. I couldn't communicate with anyone," said Veronica Niyibigira, who until this week had lived in a refugee camp since she left her native Burundi in 1972. Ms. Niyibigira is among the 50 people from Africa expected to resettle here this year.
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