The Chavarría family came to Montclair, N.J. as refugees from Nicaragua with virtually nothing. They stayed in the Immaculate Conception Church, and relied on smartphones for internet access, even as their daughter started attending Montclair schools. When the pandemic hit, everything changed.

For the Chavarría family, getting access to devices was a manageable challenge — understanding systems different than those back home, made for native English speakers was another.

This episode of Our Montclair was produced from interviews by host Shane Paul Neil and Montclair Local's Diego Jesus Bartesaghi Mena and Louis C. Hochman. Read the full story: https://www.montclairlocal.news/2021/09/15/a-refugee-familys-journey-bridging-digital-and-language-divides-our-montclair/

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