Season 2 (2024): Episode 7, "Community Empowerment"

Many of our recent episodes have focused on policy…. Good policy, and bad policy, and the policies that need to change. But these are shifts that might take generations, and in the meantime, refugee communities don’t have the luxury of waiting. 

For our final episode of Season 2, we bring our attention back to Jordan. We hear from Ricky and Hassan, the co-founders of a critical, anti-racist English as a Second Language program run by refugee-led organization Sawiyan, a partner of CRP. In the face of slow political change, how can community programs like Sawiyan’s equip people to be their own advocates?

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